March 2011
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Charlotte Higgins picks up on some big ones: Five historical clangers in Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle | Guardian.
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Excerpt from an item in the Tufts Daily: Rather than submitting an application, prospective students came to campus and completed an entrance examination the June before their first year. The exam covered a wide range of subjects — if “wide” can be taken to mean classical history, languages and literature. Students taking this exam in…
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Robert Garland gathers some useful evidence: Did juvenile delinquency exist in the Graeco-Roman world? http://bit.ly/glzinG — History Today (@HistoryToday) March 18, 2011 n.b. this article is from 1991 and appeared before another book considered Roman Youth in rather more depth: Restless Youth in Ancient Rome. London: Routledge, 1993. (reviewed by someone I know for BMCR,…
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ante diem xvi kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 18) 37 A.D. — The dead emperor Tiberius’ will is annulled and Gaius (Caligula) is given the title “Augustus” by the senate 235 A.D. (?) — murder of Alexander Severus at Moguntiacum (Mainz)
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The folks who run the Ostia Antica Field school write to say they still have a few spots open and are extending their deadline to April 30th … See the original ad here: 2011 Ostia Marina Summer Field School
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