July 2011
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Looks like the folks at Oxford are jumping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon … today my mailbox is filling up with coverage appealing to “armchair archaeologists” (philologists? paleographers shurely) to help with that famous archive of papyri. Since I have a readership who know what the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are, we’ll post the BBC coverage, even if…
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A casual Twitter exchange with @TLockyer and @exploreclassics (on Latin not having a single word for “volcano”) reminded me that Latin does seem to have a rather large number of words for earthquake … ecce (cutting and pasting from English-to-Latin Word Search Results for earthquake at Perseus; go there for links to L&S): chasmatias –…
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Laura Gibbs has been giving Google+ a workout over the past couple of weeks and her latest efforts include compiling a list of Latin abbreviations for all those things you type with your thumbs … I think folks without Google+ can check this out as well: Laura Gibbs – Google+.
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Amidst all the US debt debating which is taking up much of the news cycle, we hear of attempts to limit and/or drastically decrease the funding to the NEH, which would likely affect Classicists in the US at some point … see the post at the APA blog: Action Alert from the National Humanities Alliance
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series: #30 Decius: Emperors of Rome … and if you’re wondering about the death of Decius after watching that: The Death of Decius
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