May 2009
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… seen on the Classicists list: Bologna University Summer School in Latin Language and Classical Culture (29th June – 17th July 2009) The Department of Classics (http://www.classics.unibo.it) of Bologna University is pleased to announce that it is still possible to enrol to the second Summer School in Latin Language and Classical Culture. The teaching will…
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Although the BBC article only mentions Rome in passing, some folks have done the computer thang and have recreated what the Lituus might have sounded like, at least in the context of one of the last pieces written (by Bach) for the instrument which fell into desuetude a few centuries ago. Listen to it here…
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The incipit of a piece by Jonathan Tepperman in Newsweek: In 1942, a little-known Michigan-born journalist living in Europe decided to write a cookbook of sorts. Her name was M.F.K. Fisher, and the result, How to Cook a Wolf, was less a collection of recipes than a guide to, and a fierce defense of, eating…
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Even if you’re not a fan of Death Metal, classicist types should find the imagery of the title track of Ex Deo’s latest Roman-themed project of interest: Exclaim (to whom I tip my pileus) also includes a list of tracks on the album (do they call them albums any more?): 1. “Romulus” 2. “Storm the…
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Not sure why this is in the Guardian‘s weather pages, actually … perhaps it’s a sidebar to something: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, mentor to the boy emperor Nero, had let himself be persuaded to travel by sea. "The sea was quite calm when we set off. The sky was certainly heavily overcast, with the kind of…
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