October 2011
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From BMCR: 2011.10.50: Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. IV (Raccolta delle relazioni discusse nel IV incontro internazionale di Trieste, Biblioteca Statale, 28-30 aprile 2010). Polymnia, 13 2011.10.49: The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary…
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I might have missed a couple: Diogenes of Babylon: A Stoic on Music and Ethics October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World Snow White’s Apple And Claudius’ Mushrooms: A Look at the Use of Poison in the Early Roman Empire October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World Pirates, Warfare and Failing States in…
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ante diem ix kalendas novembres 31 A.D. — execution of Strabo, son of the Praetorian Praefect L. Aelius Sejanus 51 A.D. — birth of the future emperor T. Flavius Domitianus, better known as Domitian
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Found this one lurking in the bottom of my mailbox because I had vain hopes it might get some coverage in the major English speaking press, what with it being about damnatio memoriae and all that … here’s the basic story from the Bucharest Herald: An inscription carved in stone, proving the political conflict between…
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Nice coverage of the second ’round’ of the the Classics Renewed conference at Brown last week: For a dead language, Latin showed an awful lot of life at last week’s “Classics Renewed” conference on the poetry and prose of late antiquity. The conference, which ran from Thursday to Saturday, brought 19 speakers from four continents…
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