May 2010

  • nonas maias 431 B.C. — the “Peloponnesian War” began (according to one reckoning) 399 B.C. — death of Socrates (according to one reckoning) 1941 — death of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough)

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): DESTROY THE COPY! A WORKSHOP ON THE FATE OF PLASTER CAST COLLECTIONSSeptember 24-25, 2010 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA organized by Annetta Alexandridis, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornel University and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček,…

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): The 3rd meeting of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network will be on 21st May, in Seminar Room 2, Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied CETL, University of Leeds. Further details at our website/blog "Sullogismos": http://sullogismos.wordpress.com Programme: 10:00-12:30 Reading Group Plato…

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  • Seen on various lists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): ‘Diodorus Siculus: shared myths, world community, and universal history’ An international conference at the University of Glasgow, 31st Aug. – 2nd Sep. 2011 Conference Website: http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/diodorus/ Diodorus Siculus, the most voluminous historian to survive from classical…

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  • pridie nonas maias c. 69 A.D. — martyrdom of Evodius of Antioch

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