January 2011
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Not a bad analysis from Foreign Policy … This week on Thucydides Abuse Watch | Daniel W. Drezner. … it’s worth clicking on the internal links in the piece as well …
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Tip o’ the pileus to Mata Kimasitayo on the Classics list for alerting us to Hadrian’s turn in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Oxford DNB: Lives of the week – Hadrian. If you visit rogueclassicism after January 24, you probably have to access it via here (for a week … then it will disappear)…
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Adrian Murdoch’s podcast series continues: Emperors of Rome: Claudius.
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ante diem xi kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 4) Sementivae or Paganalia (day 1) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been…
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via Chuck Jones: http://twitter.com/#!/chuckjones2000/status/28466782230552577