February 2009
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The Department of Classics at Union College seeks to appoint a classicist for a one-year visiting appointment at the rank of instructor or assistant professor. This is a one-year sabbatical replacement that will begin in September 2009. The area of specialization is open, but we look for evidence of successful beginning language instruction as well…
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Lectureship in Greek Philosophy (UCL) Lectureship in Roman History (St Andrews) APA/AIA PLACEMENT SERVICE POSITIONS FOR CLASSICISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS (February)
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ante diem vii kalendas martias Traditional end of the Roman year (followed by a period of intercalation) Terminalia — a festival in honour of Terminus, the divinity who presided over boundaries. In Rome itself, Terminus had a shrine within the Temple of Jupiter beneath an opening in the roof because, it is said, when they…
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contumacious (Wordsmith) pleonasm (Merriam-Webster) mobile (OED) mutuatitial (Worthless Word for the Day)
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I’m sure everyone who reads this blog has already read the silliness about Google Earth and Atlantis, so I won’t comment on it’s don’t-eat-that-elmer quality directly, but the whole thing is instructive for a couple of reasons. First, from a rogueclassicism-blogging point of view, I now know that when my spiders fetch a pile of…
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