May 15, 2013
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Posted with permission: The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. By Amanda Wilcox. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 223. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-2992-8834-1. Reviewed by Yasuko Taoka, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Dear Amanda (if I may), Convention has long dictated how…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Bill Jennings on twitter for pointing us to this very engaging item by Daniel Mendelsohn in the New Yorker … I was wondering if other Classicists were thinking about Antigone over the past week or so (I know I was … I was also picturing faceless New Englanders running around…
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From a Christie’s press release: On 12 June 2013, Christie’s London will offer a newly discovered, deluxe copy of Opera by Virgil (70-19 B.C.) in the sale of Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts (estimate: £500,000 – 800,000). The Aeneid is accepted as the foundation stone of western literature, and this copy is the earliest edition…
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circadian (Dictionary.com) petrify (Wordsmith) orography (OED) Linguatweets: noun 3: princeps , principis, m => chief, emperor http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) May 15, 2013 hodie: today: adverb. Example sentence:Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit. Translation:He who is not prep… http://t.co/yfEoHtgd7X — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 15, 2013 praebĭtĭo, ōnis, f. —(praebeo),…
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