March 2010
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For all you metal fans, Ex Deo has released its next video on a significant day (Festival of Mars) … the Battle of Actium (I think Romulus was a bit better, but this one works too …). If you aren’t a metal fan, well … sorry.
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Interesting stuff to be gleaned at Youtube (besides the Wayne and Schuster sketch) … here’s a talk by Michael Parenti on the assassination (written for a general audience, it seems): Here’s the version from Joseph Mankiewicz’ 1953 film version of Shakespeare’s play: This one’s from a 1979 version of the play directed by Herbert Wise…
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Kathryn Thomas was the person to go to if you ever needed an ancient recipe, a translation of a Roman tomb inscription or a tour of Grecian antiquities. Thomas, an associate professor at Creighton University, spent a lifetime studying and teaching the classics to students young and old. She died of cancer Wednesday at a…
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Not sure why I’ve never done this before, but here’s Suetonius’ account of Caesar’s assassination (via Lacus Curtius): More than sixty joined the conspiracy against him, led by Gaius Cassius and Marcus and Decimus Brutus. At first they hesitated whether to form two divisions at the elections in the Campus Martius, so that while some…
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Writer Miguel Delibes dies / Papoulias chosen President of Greece / Turkey summons Swedish ambassador / Beheaded vikings found in England
rogue classicism 