January 2009
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Alun Salt mentioned this on Twitter and I finally have time to explore it a bit … A piece in New Scientist relates Robert Hannah’s suggestion that the Pantheon served as a sundial of some sort. Here’s an excerpt: When Robert Hannah of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, visited the Pantheon in…
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It’s been the buzz of all the lists over the past week, so if you missed it, ecce: prisoner type one: Quare non sunt vestitus eis? prisoner type two: Tace! blonde: Cognoscitis qui sumus? … there was apparently some later as well; I can’t find that one yet, but the blond (the character’s name is…
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ante diem iv kalendas februarias 164 B.C. — death of Antiochus Epiphanes (according to one reckoning) 1 B.C. — departure of Gaius Caesar to the east (?) 275 A.D. — death of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which doesn’t seem right)
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lares and penates (Wordsmith) acclaim (Dictionary.com) indubitable (Merriam-Webster) congregational (OED)
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JEWS, CHRISTIANS, GREEKS, ROMANS: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS INTERACTIONS A symposium in honour of Professor Tessa Rajak University of Reading Thursday, 25 June 2009 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The conference is to mark the long and distinguished career of our colleague, Tessa Rajak, and her many years of research, teaching, and service to the global…
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