October 13, 2009
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The incipit of an item in the Antiques Trade Gazette: SPECIALISTS at Bonhams have just announced that they have identified a magnificent Roman cameo glass vase, which may be the most important of its kind in the world. Strikingly similar to the Portland Vase, one of the British Museum’s greatest treasures, it is larger, in…
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5th ANNUAL WINDSOR CLASSICS UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in conjunction with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Group of the University of Windsor is pleased to sponsor its fifth annual Classics Undergraduate Conference to be held on Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6, 2010.…
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seen on the Classicists list: The programme for this term’s ancient history seminar series at Oxford is as follows: Centre and Region in the Hellenistic Mediterranean 13 Oct. Dr Jonathan Prag (Oxford) Epigraphic habits in the hellenistic western Mediterranean 20 Oct. Dr Alex Mullen (Cambridge) ‘La Provence grecque’. Regional identities and language in Southern Gaul…
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ante diem iii idus octobres Fontinalia — a festival in honour of the divinity Fons, who presided over springs and wells; such sources of water were festooned with garlands for the occasion 54 A.D. — death of the emperor Claudius, purportedly succumbing to a plate of poisoned mushrooms dished up by his niece/wife Agrippina; dies…
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