July 12, 2011
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One of my summer projects is to find a way to better incorporate all these things which are done in widgets in WordPress in a way which works better (since I have a feeling much of the sidebar and below-the-fold stuff is not seen by many readers) … and so, as an experiment i wanted…
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I tweeted this excellent blog post by John Birchall earlier — he just started blogging a week or so ago — and to judge by the number of times it’s being retweeted, it seems to be of great interest, so ecce: Classics Blog · Free Digital Resources for Classicists, including the New Online Version of…
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One of the reasons I eventually ended up in Classics (and I’m sure it’s the reason many folks end up there) is that no matter how long you’re at it, there is ALWAYS something ‘new’ that you can happen upon which has interest for various reasons. A case in point is an article at Scientific…
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Cressida Ryan was on the BBC this a.m. talking about what Classical Outreach Officers do and all sorts of things about Julius Caesar. Available for the next seven days on iPlayer … scroll up to the 36 minute spot or thereabouts: Malcolm Boyden : 12/07/2011
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ante diem iv idus quintilias ludi Apollinares (day 7) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar 67 A.D. — martyrdom of…
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