August 2011
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ante diem xviii kalendas septembres 29 B.C. — triple triumph of Octavian (day 3)
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What the Classical blogosphere was talking about on Saturday: The Ficus Navia Lupercalia of 296 BC August 13, 2011 Dorothy King On This Day in Ancient History – Augustus August 13, 2011 (N.S. Gill) LATIN PLACE NAMES August 13, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones Roman Mysteries on TV (& DVD) August 13, 2011 Caroline Lawrence The…
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I’m thinking I better post these before other things cause them to scroll away: Flogspot August 12, 2011 prometheuscomic Ancient and Modern August 13, 2011 (Peter Jones) A Crucified Man from 1st century Jerusalem August 12, 2011 Dorothy King On This Day in History – Edith Hamilton’s Birthday August 12, 2011 (N.S. Gill) On…
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… and the Huffington Post … the latter has a lengthy item from Narrative Magazine focussing on Diane Middlebrook’s final years (as she was working on a biography of Ovid — she was working on it at the time of her death in 2008; not sure if it was ever published). Here’s a bit from…
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William Wetmore Story’s neoclassical (and somewhat boring) sculpture of Cleo is the Met’s artwork of the day: Cleopatra | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
rogue classicism 