March 2009
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infundibuliform (Wordsmith … check out their contest) incisive (Dictionary.com) remedial (OED) organonymy (Worthless Word for the Day)
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This is kind of different … a press release for a doctoral dissertation! Ecce: Most people have heard of the great Greeks Euclid and Archimedes. And who is not familiar with Pythagoras” theorem? When Rome usurped political power around the Mediterranean, the Romans came into close contact with Greek culture, its literature and science. According…
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The Belfast Telegraph reports on an incident between those pseudo-Gladiatorial folks who hang out by the Colosseum … inter alia: One of the “centurions” who haunts the Colosseum suffered head injuries this week in a fight with a colleague outside the arena. A police officer said he found the man sprawled on the ground “with…
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Some (all?) of the papers from this panel have been made available at the APA site: New Approaches to the Political & Military History of the Greek, Roman, and Late Roman Worlds Man it would be nice if every panel did this sort of thing … or at least had podcasts of the presentations ……
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If you haven’t visited Laura Gibbs’ Latin via Fables blog yet, you really should as she’s past the ‘fifty fable’ mark … Latin teachers especially will find this ‘slideshow approach’ to learning the language (as opposed to the words) a useful addition to their arsenal … The HCA (History, Classics, Archaeology) Subject Centre Newsletter (pdf)…
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