November 27, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Another one that was making the rounds this week. From Fox6: Father Reginald Foster is trying to resuscitate something most people consider dead; the old language of Latin. Years ago, Foster spurned the family business for a higher calling. He joined the priesthood. Foster soon learned he excelled at one of the…
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One of the things that was being passed around the past week (during which occurred American Thanksgiving, of course) was this humourous item on Thanksgiving seating arrangements, as interpreted by College Humor: … which was very interesting from a Classics point of view when one thinks about Roman triclinium seating arrangements. Here’s Pedar Foss’ diagram…
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s something I didn’t know … there’s a Classicist behind Inspector Morse … from the incipit of a feature at FT.com: Crime writer Colin Dexter has become inextricably linked with the city of Oxford, where his bestselling Inspector Morse novels are set. So it is interesting to discover that he went to…
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Image via Wikipedia I don’t think there is any new discovery lurking behind this one, but it’s interesting to bring it up as a reminder that not all gladiators died in the arena: An ancient site in the southwestern province of Muğla is believed to be the land where gladiators lived after they retired. Excavations…
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One of the things I constantly wrestle with as a blogger is whether to post things as soon as they come out and risk having a better version/more detailed version come out later — as often happens — or hold onto things and let them sit in my 2blog file, where they often get forgotten.…
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