March 22, 2013
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This one is out there in various forms … here’s the Eurekalert version: Built under a sheer cliff, with a commanding view of the forum and castle in the ancient city of Pinara in Turkey, a Roman mausoleum has been knocked off-kilter, its massive building blocks shifted and part of its pediment collapsed. The likely…
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Interesting article by Jane Draycott over at History Today: Cleopatra’s Daughter
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From the Independent: Once famously described in the press as one of this country’s hidden chess assets, Adrian Hollis spent a long and distinguished academic career as a Classics Tutor and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. There, amid research focussed largely on Hellenistic and Roman poetry, he bestrode the often narrow confines of his art…
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serpentine (Dictionary.com) impregnable (Wordsmith) periplus Latinitweets: noun 1: Roma , Romae, f (Romae: at/in Rome) => Rome http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 22, 2013 pŏpīno, ōnis, m. a frequenter of eating – houses, a gormandizer — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) March 21, 2013 ἴουλος [ῑ], ὁ down, the first growth of the…
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ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts
rogue classicism 