April 2010
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Calleva seems to be an awfully interesting dig … last time we heard about it, it was about the ‘puppy skin’ trade. Now we hear of Boudicca’s possible involvement there: Professor Michael Fulford said that 13 years of excavations at Calleva had revealed evidence of the first gridded Iron Age town in Britain. The site…
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ante diem iii kalendas maias ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 3) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who…
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Image via Wikipedia Tom Sienkewicz, Capron Professor of Classics at Monmouth College, was named secretary-treasurer elect of The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) during its 106th annual meeting, held recently in Oklahoma City. “We are planning on a two-year transition period, with phasing out of the office at St. Olaf College…
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Image by ortygia via Flickr ante diem iv kalendas maias ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 2) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment…
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There’s an article at Asylum going around all about assorted ‘bad predictions’ … one has a bit o’ classcon: “Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite ‘The Iliad.’” — Bruce Sterling, a science-fiction writer and journalist, told The New York Times. via…
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