January 2010
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From Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S treasure house of art has opened a gleaming new window on what life was like for ordinary people thousands of years ago. Experts at the Fitzwilliam Museum have spent the past 18 months revamping its famous collection of ancient Greek and Roman artefacts – and from Saturday, visitors will be able…
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Not sure how I’ve missed this blog in my scans … the ‘Wayward Classicist’ has been around a while but this is the first post that made it to one of my screens: Tales of a Wayward Classicist: Latin Tattoos. … added to the blogroll thingy on the side
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): All seminars take place on Fridays at 4.00 p.m. (note the new time!) in Swallowgate 11. Papers are followed by discussion. All are very welcome. Feb 12th Richard Steadman-Jones (Sheffield) ‘Language of Art’: The Place of Greek…
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For someone whose MA and never-completed PhD was dependent on this sort of thing, this is pretty big news from Science Daily: Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered by researchers at University College London’s Department of History. Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway made the…
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ante diem vi kalendas februarias 6 A.D. — dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux by the future emperor Tiberius 98 A.D. — death of Nerva (?) ca. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Devota 1887 — birth of Carl Blegen, future excavator of Pylos (etc.)
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