January 2011

  • d.m. Richard M. Krill

    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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  • Emperors of Rome: Nero

    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…

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  • Leicester Theses Online

    20+ theses from Leicester on a pile of interesting topics: Leicester Research Archive: Ancient History.

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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 Department of Greek and Latin at University College, London, is delighted to invite you to our 2011 Greek play, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre. The play will run from Tuesday 8th –…

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