April 16, 2012
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2012.04.27: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson, Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient. Routledge classical translations. 2012.04.26: Isabelle Loring Wallace, Jennie Hirsh, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth. 2012.04.25: Ihor Ševčenko, Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur liber quo Vita Basilii imperatoris amplectitur. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 42. 2012.04.24: William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov,…
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Interesting Op Ed from Arutz Sheva: The Jewish Revolt that led to the destruction of the Second Temple is erroneously held to be the start of Roman anti-Semitism, while it is actually more of the same – the belief Jews are sinister, evil and threatening. That anti-Jewish prejudice features among Latin authors of the early…
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This is one of those UPenn Museum talks and is quite possibly the best presentation on Atlantis and all (or at least most of) its interpretations that I’ve ever seen/listened to:
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the first of a group who are usually designated as ‘shadow emperors’: Petronius Maximus: Emperors of Rome … these guys usually get short shrift — if they’re mentioned at all — in history classes …
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ante diem xvi kalendas maias ludi Cereri (day 5) 43 B.C. — Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) is hailed as Imperator for the first time 69 A.D. — suicide of the emperor wannabe Otho (this might have occured on April 17) 304 A.D. — martyrs of Saragossa 1928 — death of Jane Ellen Harrison (Prolegomena…
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