March 14, 2013
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Last weekend, the Warburg Institute and the Institute for Classical Studies hosted a conference called The Afterlife of Ovid and a number of videos from the meeting have made it to Youtube. I’m going to sort of intersperse an ‘edited program’ with the videos (not all talks are there … not sure if they will…
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Michael Broder has a piece in the Huffington Post (and he’s elicited comments on the Classics list as well) on a piece suggesting Catullus was a sort of proto-Queer and in the forefront of the development of camp. Here’s an excerpt: Now, since I started arguing for the Roman invention of camp at academic conferences…
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tinnient (Wordmsith) fulminous (Worthless) surd (Wordnik) Latinitweet: preposition: trans , + accusative (also used as prefix with verbs) => across http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 14, 2013
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pridie idus martias Festival of Mars (day 14) Equirria — the second of two days of horse racing (the first was on February 27) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing horses for the upcoming campaigning season 222 A.D. — Severus Alexander is given the title Augustus
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