January 14, 2009
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SEMINAR PROGRAM, EPIPHANY TERM 2009 Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham Wednesday 21 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr Daniela Colomo (Oxford) The Leipzig Callimachus: scholia to Iambus XII on a new papyrus fragment Wednesday 28 January, 5.30pm [PG20] Professor Ulrich Eigler (University of Zürich) The death of a villain Wednesday 4 February,…
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Call for Papers for a panel at the next Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association The HEXAMETERS of HOMER and VERGIL Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature. Organized by Andrew S. Becker, Virginia Tech. The contemporary poet Kenneth Koch has said that poetry is language Œin which…
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ante diem xix kalendas februarias ca. 82 B.C. — birth of Marcus Antonius (a.k.a. Mark Anthony)
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newel (Wordsmith) jettison (Dictionary.com) australize (Dr. Johnson) audacious (Merriam-Webster)
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Let’s see if I can clear out some of the backlog … A column in the Ottawa Citizen is all about Herodotus and Thucydides (not sure what the motivation for this one is): The shoulders of giants A chatty, semi-touristy thing about Boudicca: Walking with Boudicca: We follow an historic journey – via an Essex…
rogue classicism 