May 2010

  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) ‘INTEGRITY AND CORRUPTION IN ANTIQUITY’ UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM PRETORIA, 21-22 OCTOBER 2010 You are cordially invited to submit paper proposals for this year’s Unisa Classics Colloquium. Papers concerned with any aspect of the conference theme in the ancient…

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  • An excerpt from a feature on Zahi Hawass in Speigel … I don’t think comment is necessary …. Hawass reserves the right to announce all discoveries himself. Not everyone likes this. Some people feel that he is about as interested in serious research as Rapunzel was in having her hair cut. He boasted that there…

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  • … is too good not to share: The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

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  • Tip o’ the pileus (or perhaps crunch of the rectus abdominis is more appropriate) to Julia Borek (who also was first to use the ‘contact the rogueclassicist’ thing) for sending in this ‘different’ view of sword and sandal flicks: The Fug Girls’ History of the Sword-and-Sandal Ab: From Spartacus to Jake Gyllenhaal

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  • ante diem v kalendas Iunias 585 B.C. — solar eclipse predicted by Thales of Miletus occurs during the battle of the Halys (another possible date) 20 A.D. — Drusus “Minor”, the son of the emperor Tiberius, celebrates an ovatio for his victories in Illyricum ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Heliconis

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