June 2011
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This one’s been making the rounds of all my sources (i.e. email, Facebook, Twitter), so without further ado:
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No, the job hasn’t been filled yet (I don’t think), but the Daily Mail has a lengthy piece on the lifestyles of tutors of the rich and famous … it includes this: However, tutors exist in a world in which clients have so much money, their fees are almost irrelevant. Indeed, the more these parents…
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ante diem iv idus junias 17 B.C. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 6) 38 A.D. — death of Drusilla, the much-beloved sister of the emperor Gaius (Caligula) 86 A.D.. — ludi Capitolini (day 5) 120 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaetulius and companions at Tivoli 204 A.D. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day…
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Interesting item from the University of Bristol: A skeleton, possibly dating from Roman times, has been unearthed by archaeologists from the University of Bristol during a dig in the garden of vaccination pioneer Dr Edward Jenner in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. The archaeologists, led by Professor Mark Horton and Dr Stuart Prior, have been excavating part of…
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A year ago (almost to the day) we were mentioning that the remains of some so-called ‘salt men’ from Iran had been saved from a sad decompositional fate in a museum and we also reminded folks of Adrienne Mayor’s plausible suggestion that such ‘salt men’ may have had some connection to tales of satyrs and…
rogue classicism 