August 12, 2011
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Interesting article on the Ars Amatoria up at the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers blog (I thing it’s a blog) which mentions, inter alia: Then there’s another theory that has bounced around scholars for the last century or so: Ovid never was exiled. The main reason for this theory is that the only record of…
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Today it’s a bit different … the Classics Confidential folks are interviewing the folks responsible for staging Seneca’s Medea back in February: There’s a somewhat disturbing trailer for the production at the Oxford Medea webpage (blog?) as well … There are also some clips from other productions of Medea (movie treatments) … Pasolini’s has always…
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Some of the posts that turned up in my RSS reader yesterday: The Man and the Mith August 10, 2011 Barry Strauss Round-Up: August 11 August 11, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Greatest and Highest of Gods August 11, 2011 Michael Gilleland UNESCO report August 11, 2011 (Jo Berry) Did Cicero Say It? August 11, 2011 (N.S.…
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pridie idus sextiles rites in honour of Hercules Invictus in the Circus Maximus rites in honour of Venus Victrix, Honos, Virtus, and Felicitas in Pompey’s theatre 3 A.D. — conjunction of Jupiter and Venus (one suggestion for the ‘Star of Bethlehem’) 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Anicetus and companions at Nicomedia 1867 — birth of…
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