July 7, 2009
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… seen on the Classicists list: IRONY AND THE IRONIC IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE A conference at the University of Exeter 1-4 September 2009 Booking is now open for this exciting conference. For more details, including registration forms, costs and a full conference programme, visit http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/classics/conferences or contact either of the conference organizers, Dr Matthew Wright…
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nonae iuliae ludi Apollinares (day 2)– 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 feriae Ancillarum — a festival in honour of the “maids” who helped save Rome from a Latin attack…