March 2011
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Nice when the big guns step in … from the Harvard Crimson: Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas joined students, parents, and other Massachusetts professors yesterday evening at a public hearing at F.A. Day Middle School, urging the Newton Public School Committee to reconsider the implementation of a proposed budget that would eliminate Latin courses at…
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ante diem iv kalendas apriles 119 — martyrdom of Secundus at Asti ca. 311 — martyrdom of Pastor, Victorinus, and companions at Nicomedia
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An online paper by David Pritchard … here’s the abstract: This article concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city’s athletes continued to drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Announcement of a conference organized by the Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms. The Past-Colonial: Classics and the Colonization of the Past Friday April 1st – Sunday April 3rd 2011 Yale University Department of Classics in association with the International Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms and Yale’s Ancient Societies…
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I’m used to wading through journalistic attempts to make a quotation from Marcus Aurelius relevant to whatever they’re writing about. Today I was pointed to a very interesting blog, the title of which is pretty much self explanatory: Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Translated into Housewife.
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