January 25, 2012
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Seen on the Classicists list: [it's being streamed and skyped too … I hope other conferences are paying attention!!!!!] The Illuminated Astronomical Manuscripts research group at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (http://www.sns.it/en/ricerca/lettere/manoscrittiastronomici) is delighted to announce its first meeting: Ancient Stars in Byzantium: The Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1087 Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, February 8th, 2012…
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posted with permission: Fik Meijer, Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire. Translated by Liz Waters. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 185. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8018-9697-2. Reviewed by Donald G. Kyle, University of Texas at Arlington Professor of ancient history at the University of Amsterdam, Meijer has authored various works that…
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Posted with permission: Jonas Grethlein, The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 350. Hardcover, £58.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11077-8. Reviewed by Carolyn Dewald, Bard College This is an ambitious, lucid, well-researched and well-organized book. Jonas Grethlein explores a variety…
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ante diem viii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day 2) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which…
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