May 16, 2013
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Posted with permission: Saints and Symposiasts: the Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture. By Jason König. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 417. Hardcover, £70.00/$115.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88685-7. Reviewed by Simon Swain, University of Warwick This book explores how…
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Tim Parkin just sent this in (tip o’ the pileus and all that) … from Neokosmos: Community involvement will save dwindling programs like Ancient Greek says Professor K.O Chong-Gossard. The University of Melbourne Ancient Greek professor says although class number are dwindling, Ancient Greek is still necessary and relevant to our society when you factor…
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This one is filling my box in various forms … here’s a UWashington press release via PhysOrg: DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in…
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allochthonous (Dictionary.com) impute (Wordsmith) prodrome (OED) nepheligenous (Wordnik) Linguatweets: adjective/adverb: satis , indeclinable => enough http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) May 16, 2013 dux: commander, leader: noun. Example sentence:Caesare duce nihil timebimus.Translation:Since Caesar is the co… http://t.co/CQLr6pXRUH — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 16, 2013 ex-pers, tis, adj. —(pars) having no part in, not…
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ante diem xvi kalendas junias 218 A.D. — Elagabalus recognized as emperor at Emesa
rogue classicism 