December 2009
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Killing some time at the end of the day, I’m looking at the recent results of Sotheby’s Classical auction … among the many interesting items therefrom is this bit of a marble sarcophagus, apparently depicting Medea and her two kiddies: … which got me to wondering … other than perhaps a famous actor or someone…
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ante diem xix kalendas januarias 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Heron 283 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus and Abundius
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ante diem iii idus decembres Agonalia — the fourth and final occurrence of this festival in the Roman calendar; like all instances, the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia, but on this occasion, the sacrifice was apparently in honour of Sol Indiges. Septimontium — a somewhat obscure festival apparently originally only celebrated…
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Student bloopers are needed, for a book to be published by Mitch Allen and Left Coast Press. Any and all areas desired: history, archaeology, English, science, etc. Bloopers already collected from student essays, exams, and research papers include gems such as "The Israelites…wondered in the dessert for 40 years." Please send via email to Eric…
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Seen on Latinteach (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!); : Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that the new issue of CANEns, the newsletter of the Classical Association of New England, has been posted at the CANE website: http://www.caneweb.org; click on the ‘canens’ button.…
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