August 2009
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I’m sure folks are scratching their head and wondering who Sylvia Lennick is … here’s the incipit of her obit in the Globe and Mail: Sylvia Lennick, the last surviving member of the Wayne and Shuster comedy troupe, died this morning of complications from pneumonia in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She was 93. A stalwart…
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Seen on the Classicists list: ‘EPIC POETRY AND FLAVIAN CULTURE’ Chairs: Emma Buckley (St Andrews), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham) and Gesine Manuwald (UCL). To form a conference panel at the sixth Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, 28-31 July, 2010. Flavian Rome was a Rome in the process of radical re-making, experiencing a traumatic change in ruling…
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Seen on the Classicists list: DESIRING THE TEXT, TOUCHING THE PAST: TOWARDS AN EROTICS OF RECEPTION A one-day conference co-organized by the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition & the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto University of Bristol, 10 July 2010 Keynote Speaker: Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, NYU CALL FOR PAPERS…
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ante diem iii idus sextiles 480 B.C. — Battle of Thermopylae ; death of Leonidas et al (by one reckoning) 480 B.C. — Battle of Artemesium (by one reckoning) 117 A.D. — dies imperii of the emperor Hadrian 275 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander the Charcoal Burner at Cremona 295 A.D. — martyrdom of Susanna…
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ante diem iv idus sextiles 30 B.C. — Suicide of Cleopatra 7 A.D. — dedication of the ara Cereris Matris et Opis Augustae and associated rites thereafter 70 A.D. — Roman forces breach the walls of Jerusalem 1911 — birth of A.N. Sherwin-White (The Roman Citizenship)
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