January 2009
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I could have sworn I had mentioned this one before, but I guess not … in any event, there are episodes of both the Simpsons and Family Guy wherein the main characters find themselves excluded from their favourite watering hole for various reasons and so decide to open up a bar in their garage/basement (respectively).…
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A bunch of Latin news this a.m., the most interesting/surprising being that Mick Jagger is apparently a fan of the ancient language we hold so dear. According to a brief item in the Telegraph: Sir Mick was looking around Latymer Upper School recently with Gabriel, his 11-year son by Jerry Hall, when he was shown…
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An ironically-titled very long post as I try to get my email filing system back in order: A Roman brooch find by a metal detectorist: Haslingden man finds Roman treasure in Ribchester (Lancashire Telegraph) Latest from Macedonia/FYROM: abstracts Letter From Macedonia: Owning Alexander (Archaeology) A nice intro to Herodotus and Thucydides: The shoulders of giants…
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June Lemen reminisces in the Nashua Telegraph, inter alia: It was time for a change, and to paraphrase our new president, it was a change we needed. Second semester, I took totally different courses, just to see what I liked. I fell in love with classics and philosophy, and I decided to double major in…
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We often see pizza being ascribed to the Romans, or to the Romans via the Greeks, but the Daily Pilot adds a twist I haven’t seen before: Ever had a pizza? I have. Do you know what “pizza” means in Italian? I do. Nothing. It’s from the Latin word “picea”… what the Romans called a…
rogue classicism 