May 3, 2013
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Saw this mentioned on the Classicists list … the folks at UWarwick are putting together something which will, no doubt, be very useful … here’s a bit from the introductory blurb: Work on provincial coins in the Roman Empire has demonstrated their potential to be used as a source to understand local culture as well…
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Just a week or so ago we mentioned the Practicing Pantomime Project … the folks involved should maybe talk to this guy, or he should talk to them … from Pressconnects: For his final project as a Binghamton University undergraduate, local theater wunderkind Santino DeAngelo has decided to re-create an art form that’s been lost for…
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Interesting OpEd from the Portland Daily Sun … the incipit: Fascination with the lives of our societal leaders began centuries ago, scratching a voyeuristic itch in the reading public. Knowing a good thing, publishing houses keep churning out fresh interpretations of these profiles. While such biographies remain popular today, the seeds of this frenzy were…
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ratiocination (Dictionary.com redaction (Merrian-Webster) leviathan (sort of … Wordsmith) Latinitweets: https://twitter.com/LatinVocab/status/330237854443778049 https://twitter.com/latinlanguage/status/330110637856395264 https://twitter.com/LewisandShort/status/329982208385351680 https://twitter.com/LiddellandScott/status/329982683566444544 https://twitter.com/AncientGrammar/status/329982795629879296
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ante diem vi nonas maias ludi Florae (possible day 7) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over…
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