January 31, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia From the Toledo Blade: Richard M. Krill, 72, a longtime professor of the classics and a chairman of the department of foreign languages at the University of Toledo who taught Latin to high school students after his retirement, died Jan. 15. Mr. Krill of Toledo died at Sunset House of corticobasal degeneration,…
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Adrian Murdoch continues his look at the Roman emperors: Emperors of Rome: Nero
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Image via Wikipedia pridie kalendas februarias 1000 B.C. — temple of Hercules at Tyre completed (according to one ‘traditional’ reckoning) 817 B.C. — death of Anchises (according to the same reckoning) 36 B.C. — birth of Antonia (“Minor”), daughter of Marcus Antonius and Octavia and future mother of hope-to-be-emperor Germanicus and emperor-to-be Claudius c. 250…