March 7, 2013

  • More coverage of Anthony Tuck’s work, this time by his home university: More than 2,500 years after tiny infant bones were scattered, perhaps offhandedly, amid animal remains on the floor of an Etruscan workshop, recently-discovered fragments of those bones are causing a stir far beyond Italy’s Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project. University of Massachusetts Amherst archaeologist…

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  • Over at Dickinson College Commentaries: Favorite Commentaries: Terence Tunberg … the incipit of what might be an interesting series … TT likes the in usum Delphini series …

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  • Flying Snakes in Egypt?

    Adrienne Mayor ponders the Herodotean tale over at Wonders and Marvels: Flying Snakes in Ancient Egypt?

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  • Tip o’ the pileus to Bret Mulligan for alerting us to this one … the incipit of a piece in Newsworks: “When he had the bow in his hands, the godlike Odysseus, Easily did stretch the string, and shoot through the axe-heads: Then he sprang up on the platform, and poured out the arrows before…

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  • tertiary (Dictionary.com) gnomic (Merriam-Webster) Latinitweets: adjective: tantus , tanta, tantum => so great, such a great http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 7, 2013 super PREP ACCupon/onover, above, aboutbesides (space)duringbeyondPREP ABLover (space), in addition to, duringconcerningbeyond — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) March 6, 2013 κῦρος, εος, τό, supreme power, authority, principle or origin…

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