May 2009
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The News Post Journal provides a fine example of journalists trying to make extremely tenuous connections to modern political events, in this case, the assorted financial adventures of assorted Members of Parliament. The item is brief, so: ANCIENT Roman writing tablets found near Hadrian’s Wall, suggest public officials were on the take 1,900 years ago.…
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Juliette Harrisson — a PhD candidate at UBirmingham — scripsit: I’m e-mailing to inform you of a new Classics blog which I have just started. It is called Pop Classics and posts informal reviews of Classics in popular culture; everything from The Life of Brian to a brief mention of The Aeneid in Red Dwarf.…
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ante diem v kalendas Iunias 585 B.C. — solar eclipse predicted by Thales of Miletus occurs during the battle of the Halys (another possible date) 20 A.D. — Drusus "Minor", the son of the emperor Tiberius, celebrates an ovatio for his victories in Illyricum ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Heliconis
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seen on the Classicists list: The Erotics of Narrative’ An international KYKNOS conference KYKNOS, the Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World 15-17 July, Gregynog Hall For booking information see: www.kyknos.org.uk Conference organisers: John.Morgan AT swansea.ac.uk m.plantinga AT lamp.ac.uk; I.Repath AT swansea.ac.uk Theme…
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Interesting item in the North West Evening Mail on how much it would cost if they were to build Hadrian’s Wall today … here’s the incipit: Carillion, which is working on the Waterfront business park on Barrow Island, which includes some traditional stone walls, calculated that it would take around 1,500 construction workers about two-and-a-half…
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