If you can’t get the BBC iPlayer to work (I’m not sure it works outside of the UK; I thought it did), you can access this one via iTunes
- Pliny’s Natural History | In Our Time (iPlayer)
- Itunes link (I think this will take you there)
Day: July 12, 2010
Citanda: Why Be a Classicist
Over at Provoking the Muse, Denis has a nice post which should start your week off right:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus quinctilias
ante diem iv idus quinctilias
- ludi Apollinares (day 7) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo
- 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar
- 67 A.D. — martyrdom of Paulinus of Antioch
- 1536 — death of Erasmus
- 1922 — birth of Michael Ventris, who would decipher Linear B
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