February 2010
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ante diem vii kalendas martias Traditional end of the Roman year (followed by a period of intercalation) Terminalia — a festival in honour of Terminus, the divinity who presided over boundaries. In Rome itself, Terminus had a shrine within the Temple of Jupiter beneath an opening in the roof because, it is said, when they…
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My spiders regularly pick up items which show how much the Classical languages have influenced our own, but rarely is an incipit of a piece so ‘classical’: THE Mater Dei College (MDC) in Tubigon, Bohol conducted a gubernatorial candidates’ symposium on voters’ education. … I usually just send these to trash, but it later mentions:…
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Last week we posted some photos of the snow activity in Rome. As it turns out, Dr. Max Nelson (UWindsor) was in Rome at the time and took some spectacular shots of the Pantheon in the snowfall and even better, he sent them along to share with y’all (I love the snow falling though the…
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ante diem viii kalendas martias Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members…
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Seen on the Classics list: Translation is an art form worthy of academic criticism, Donald S. Carne-Ross argued in literary essays, but as a reader he preferred a writer’s own words, even if they were written in ancient Greek. “To get really close to a poem is possible only if one is reading it in…
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