July 6, 2009
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… seen on the Classicists list: THE CELTIC CONFERENCE IN CLASSICS with, and at, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH July 28-31 2010 The next Celtic Conference in Classics, the sixth, will meet at the University of Edinburgh from Wednesday 28th to Saturday 31st July 2010. The Conference is open to all. It is expected that there…
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pridie nonas julias ludi Apollinares (day 1) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo late fifth century B.C.? — in the wake of the aborted attack on Rome by Coriolanus,…