November 15, 2011
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David Gill alerted us to this series of ads from TIM (an Italian phone company) in which Caesar is shilling cell phones with some Latin thrown in … the first one (not necessarily the first one created) riffs on the veni, vidi, vici thing: … then he’s trying to pick up puellae … plenty of…
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lizgloyn: Thoughts on Animating Antiquity. [Animating Antiquity was a conference last week …]
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History of the Ancient World: Livia Drusilla: Deciphering Between Traditional Views of Rome’s First Lady. [online thesis]
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The Classics Confidential folks chat with Helen Roche, who is looking at how the Nazis incorporated/interpreted Spartan ideas in their own education system:
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ante diem xvii kalendas decembres ludi Plebeii (day 12) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on … 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Gurias 1907 — birth of Nicholas G.L. Hammond (The Genius of Alexander the Great, among others)
rogue classicism 