March 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list: Myth and Literature in Ancient Philosophy Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge 15-16 April 2011 For more details or to register please visit the conference website. Programme Friday, 15 April 1330-1500 Keynote: Prof Catherine Osborne (University of East Anglia), ‘Literary Genres and Judgements of Taste: Aristotle on Empedocles and Plato…
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Seen on the Classicists list: The British Epigraphy Society Spring Colloquium: ‘New Discoveries in Greek Epigraphy’ Saturday 7 May 2011, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester Programme 10.30 -11 am: Coffee and Registration 11 am-12 noon: P. Thonemann (Wadham, Oxford), ‘Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: New Monuments from Roman Asia Minor?’ 12 noon -1 p.m.:…
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I’ve known James Pfundstein for years on the Classics list and didn’t know he did this sort of thing … from the BG News: Professor James Pfundstein not only lectures on the classics to University students, but he also finds time to be a writer. “Well, let’s say I have to [write], so I sneak…
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ante diem ix kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (day 24) Quando Rex Comitavit Fas — a somewhat obscure entry in the Roman calendar which seems to hearken back to the days of the monarchy. A plausible explanation connects this with the fact that this was one of the days when the ancient Comitia Calata would…
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ante diem x kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 23) Tubilustrum — as part of the general military preparations which are associated with the festival of Mars, the ‘war horns’ (tubae) were ritually cleaned Quinquatrus (day 5) — final day of the gladiator fest 1606 — Death of Justus Lipsius
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