July 2009
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The Sun has the scoop on the next ‘Big Brother’ (UK presumably) episode: As part of a Greek themed shopping challenge two housemates must dress up like the father and son team for a performance. [sc. Stavros Flatley ~ ed.] Greek Irish fusion dancers Demetrios Demetriou, 40, and son Lagi, 13, will provide the pair…
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ante diem xii kalendas sextilias Lucaria (day 2) — the followup to a similar festival on the 19th commemorating the Sack of Rome by the Gauls; this day marked Rome’s subsquent victory ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving…
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… seen on the Classicists list: Fifth Bristol Colloquium on Classical Myth Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis To be held in London, at the School of Advanced Studies, Malet Street, 3rd-6th September 2009. Keynote speakers Page DuBois (University of California, San Diego) Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago) Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen) – with response by…
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… seen on various lists: Professor of Ancient Western Mediterranean Art and Archaeology The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (ISAW), seeks to make a faculty appointment in the area of the art and archaeology of the ancient western Mediterranean, with particular focus on non-Roman cultures, particularly Etruscan or Punic,…
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ante diem xiii kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 1) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving Caesar’s own ludi Veneris Genetricis) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 3) 356 B.C. — birth of Alexander the Great (according to one reckoning)…
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