August 2011
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… and now we catch up with what was posted yesterday or so: Round-Up: August 16 August 16, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Say It in Latin!: Nearly 1, 000 Useful Quotes,,GOOD Bo August 16, 2011 admin Bibliographies: Roman Law August 16, 2011 classicslibrarian Are you looking at me? August 16, 2011 Alun Salt Roman Mosaics…
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Latest video from the folks at the Royal Ontario Museum … Trinity Jackman tells us where the name comes from: … kind of ‘meh’ given that the monument was recently in the news with a semi-new theory …
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Interesting little excerpt from the middle of an item in the Los Angeles Times: Liz Glynn’s studio, on the second floor of a mildly shabby Chinatown office complex, is modest in size and extremely cluttered. Shelves are crammed with boxes and bins; tables are loaded with books, piles of snapshots, and odds and ends from…
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From the Sydney Morning Herald (tip o’ the pileus to Tim Parkin): Colonel Alan Treloar was one of Australia’s greatest linguists and classical scholars and also a distinguished soldier. Few could rival his knowledge as a scholar of ancient Greek and Latin. He had a special interest in the Roman poet Horace but had read…
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This was making the reTweet rounds the other day:
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