January 2011
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Image via Wikipedia This one’s kind of interesting, given our knowledge of Classicists among the spying set. SkyNews had a very interesting little post on one of its blogs with the headline: Official – James Bond Speaks Latin … which reports on a closed session from the Chilcot Inquiry which (I had to look it…
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed further evidence of a Roman “shanty town” in Teesdale. Two years ago, experts carried out a major dig in Bowes. They found significant remains of a large unplanned settlement, called a vicus, on the outskirts of the Roman fort. Dubbed a “shanty town”, historians said the settlement was significant because it was…
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Image via Wikipedia T’other day we were criticizing the Guardian for its credulity in buying into a claim about the purported discovery of Caligula’s tomb. While that story was breaking, simmering on the backburner was a story that’s still making the rounds claiming some sort of correlation between the rise and fall of empires and…
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ante diem xiii kalendas februarias ludi palatini (??) 175 A.D. — Commodus is enrolled in all the priestly colleges 225 A.D. (or 226) — birth of the future emperor Gordian III c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Pope Fabian at Rome c. 288 A.D. — martyrdom of Sebastian at Rome
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Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Call for Papers Re-creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity A conference at the University of Iowa, October 27-29, 2011 Conference organizers: Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa), Andrew Simpson (Catholic University), Greg Hand (University of Iowa)…
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