January 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): The Hellenistic Court Hosted by The Centre for the Study of the Hellenistic World (CSHW), School of History, Classics & Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, 25th-27th February 2011. This conference aims to demonstrate the centrality…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Postcolonial Latin American Adaptations of Greek and Roman Drama 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association January 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA Organized by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University) Research on the reception of…
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ante diem xv kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 2) — the theatrefest continues 52 B.C. — murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher near Bovillae 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Moseus 1898 — death of H.G. Liddell (Greek lexicographer and father of Alice-in-wonderland)
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Since this is apparently the most depressing day of the year, we’ll give you something to smile about (courtesy of Keely): [Free Range via comics.com] … which, of course, makes one think of this famous teichoskopia scene:
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Adrian Murdoch continues his weekly look at the guys who ran Rome: Emperors of Rome: Caligula
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