August 2009

  • … well sort of … According to USA Today: This elusive couple didn’t confirm their April 2008 nuptials until a year later and have remained mostly mum on their relationship. They have been spotted in public with their rings on about a dozen times in the past year. They both have the number 4 tattooed…

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  • ante diem xv kalendas septembres 29 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Divus Julius (and  associated rites thereafter)

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  • Seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin: DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY Tenure-stream Appointment Lecturer/Assistant Professor Roman History The Department of Classics at Dalhousie University invites applications for a tenure stream appointment at the Lecturer/Assistant Professor level effective July 1, 2010, in Roman History with a secondary interest in Latin Studies. All candidates will possess philological…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: Classics at Edinburgh, in conjunction with the Leventis Foundation announces the 6th Leventis conference on History without Historians: Greeks and their past in the Archaic and Classical age 5th-7th November 2009 in Edinburgh The conference has been organised by Prof. John Marincola, Professor of Classics at The Florida State University…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: BELIEF AND ITS ALTERNATIVES IN GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION University of St Andrews, 2-3 July 2010 Call for Papers The religions of Greece and Rome have long been regarded as religions of ritual, religions in which what was done mattered far more than what was thought. Responses to the supposedly…

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