February 2011
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Dr Nicgorski (a professor of political science at Notre Dame) continues the conference with a paper on eloquence and Cicero:
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ante diem viii kalendas martias Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members…
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As long as we’re talking about Greek (see next post) we might as well mention an item from Washington University in St Louis which mentions the recent identification of a number of books which once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Some excerpts: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis announced the discovery by…
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Erstwhile Classics prof Ken Mayer sent along an interesting item last week … it’s a photo of a can of Kuang Chuan Mountain Coffee (the company is from Taiwan) and the inverted image shows that there’s some sort of Greek manuscript lurking on the label: What’s somewhat infuriating about this is that the company doesn’t…
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Every now and then, it turns out the journalists get it right. An excerpt from an item in the Telegraph last week: Solar winds are plumes of electrically charged particles spewed out by the Sun that occasionally hit Earth. The planet’s protective magnetic field pushes these particles to the poles, where they react with oxygen…
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