January 2011
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I’ve been sort of thinking aloud on Twitter and/or Facebook on this one and am thinking this whole Caligula tomb thing needs some sort of followup post. At some point yesterday I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/rogueclassicist/status/27708743550500864 … although it was somewhat heartening to start seeing headlines like: Caligula’s Tomb Found? Maybe Not | CBS No, You Have…
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Robert Eisenman says “I told you so” in the Huffington Post: Robert Eisenman: ‘The James Ossuary’ and Its Authenticity.
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): SYMPOTIC POETRY. A COLLOQUIUM Christ Church, Oxford Thursday March 31st – Saturday April 2nd 2011 http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/sympoticpoetry/ The symposiast’s couch is a key vantage-point from which to survey Greek poetry. Poetry was performed at the symposium…
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Text, Illustration, Revival: Ancient drama from late antiquity to 1550 The University of Melbourne: 13th to 15th July 2011 Convenors: Andrew Turner, Giulia Torello Hill In 2011 the University of Melbourne, in association with the…
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ante diem xii kalendas februarias ludi palatini (day 1/4) 63 A.D. — birth of Claudia (daughter of Nero and Poppaea) 1609 — death of Joseph Justus Scaliger