September 2009
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Excerpts from an item in the Telegraph: The group, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s invading army, were shielded from conservative Islam by the steep slopes of their remote valleys. While Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians were slowly driven out of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province by Muslim militants, the Kalash were free to…
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ante diem ix kalendas octobres rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty! 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?) 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning) 63 B.C. — birth of…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Department of Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar Seminars are held in the Classics Seminar Room, G37, 11 Woodland Road, and start at 4.10 p.m. except where noted. All welcome, especially postgraduate students; any queries, please contact n.d.g.morley AT bris.ac.uk. 6th October: Neville Morley (Bristol): ‘Thucydides and the Idea of…
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All Roads Lead From Rome : The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture 9th April 2010 Department of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Keynote speaker: Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania. The aim of this conference is to bring together papers that consider the many ways that classics informs the world…
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ante diem x kalendas octobres Mercatus — the Romans continue the shopping spree 479 B.C. — the Persian general Mardonius is killed in the Battle of Plataea (source? … seems a little late) 36 B.C. — the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus agrees to retire after losing all his military support to Octavian 19 B.C. —…
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