March 6, 2009
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A brief report which seems to be making the rounds of the Indian press tells of four digs commencing in Macedonia/FYROM … of interest to us is Heraklea Lynkestis: About 100 people already started excavating unearthed parts of the Heraklea Lynkestis site, which is located at about two kilometres from the town of Bitola in…
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LUCRETIUS: POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE An international conference at the University of Manchester (6-7 July 2009) The De rerum natura is at once one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity’s fear of death and its enslavement by empty religio, and a detailed exposition of…
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pridie nonas martias Festival of Mars (day 6) 12 B.C. — Augustus becomes pontifex maximus ca. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Conon in Pamphylia
rogue classicism 