June 2010
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Latest Hollywood rumour has a remake of the Burton-Taylor thing (or more likely, something based on Stacy Schiff‘s Cleopatra: A Life) with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the big roles … ‘Cleopatra’ Starring Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt? | The Film Stage. UPDATE (the next day): the rumour (in regards to Jolie, anyway) is…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem iii idus junias Matralia — a festival held in honor of Mater Matuta involving matrons and their nieces (with some slave abuse thrown in as well) 1184 B.C. — Greeks capture Troy (according to one reckoning) during the time of Servius — dedication of the Temple of Mater Matuta and the…
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We might be on the verge of another ancient-popculch-hybrid type thingy … a couple of weeks ago, Donna Estes Antebi wrote in the Huffington Post (inter alia): The label Cougar conjures images not of women of merit and achievement, but of fountain-of-youth seeking desperation. “Cougars” are painted as wildcats armed with bottles of Botox, stiletto-stalking…
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An excerpt from an otherwise ‘standard’ piece from ABC: One of them is the last Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Legend has it that when the Romans entered Egypt in 30 BC and after losing the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra and her lover Mark Anthony took their own lives in order to avoid being captured by…
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ante diem iv idus junias 17 B.C. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 6) 38 A.D. — death of Drusilla, the much-beloved sister of the emperor Gaius (Caligula) 86 A.D.. — ludi Capitolini (day 5) 120 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaetulius and companions at Tivoli 204 A.D. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 7)
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