January 2010
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ante diem xviii kalendas februarias carmentalia (day 2) — an annual festival in honour of the nymph Carmenta (a divinity associated with prophecy and childbirth; also the mother of Evander) celebrated primarily by women on the 11th and 15th of January 69 A.D. — murder of Galba and his adopted son Piso; dies imperii of…
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Not that it really matters, but today marks the one year anniversary of us moving from our old site to WordPress … and in that time, we had 998 posts (counting this one). Maybe this year I’ll find the time to transfer everything else over ….
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pridie idus januarias 49 B.C. — Caesar crosses the Rubicon (yet another suggestion). c. 230 A.D. — martyrdom of Tatiana in Rome c. 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Arcadius in Mauretania
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… recently returned from the University of Virginia, after they were discovered to have been illegally acquired. Our previous coverage (in reverse order): UVa Returns … Aidone Returns Redux … Getty Aphrodite Demetra e Kore tornano a casa. (Tra gli Scaffali)
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Classics Department and KYKNOS research seminars Lent Term 2010. KYKNOS seminars (marked as such below) begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars take place in the Roderic Bowen Seminar Room. All welcome. For further information…
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