March 14, 2012
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Seen on the Classicists list: Where: British Museum When: 14-15 June 2012 Who: Laura Ambrosini – ISCIMA Filippo Canali De Rossi – Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Rome Chris Carey – UCL Hazel Dodge – Trinity College Dublin Mark Golden – University of Winnipeg Ian Jenkins – British Museum Jason König – University of St Andrews…
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The incipit of an item in the Greek Reporter: The 32nd metope of the Annunciation, that has been removed from the Parthenon temple atop the Athens Acropolis for conservation, will be exhibited at the Acropolis Museum of Athens on the 25th of March. The 32nd metope from the southwestern side of the Parthenon, a Classical…
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The incipit of a feature in Trinity College Magazine … always fun to read about a Canadian who studied Classics and had subsequent success (he currently is with the Globe and Mail, I believe): John Allemang ’74 is a journalist, rather than someone for whom journalism is a job. His newsroom experiences date back to…
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pridie idus martias Festival of Mars (day 14) Equirria — the second of two days of horse racing (the first was on February 27) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing horses for the upcoming campaigning season 222 A.D. — Severus Alexander is given the title Augustus
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