April 21, 2012
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From the ‘contact the rogueclassicist’ mailbox … I have not tried this app, but it does look useful: I’m very pleased to announce that version 1.0 of Grammaticus is now available on the iTunes App Store. Grammaticus brings the full texts of Smyth’s _Greek Grammar_, Allen and Greenough’s _New Latin Grammar_, and Goodwin’s _Syntax of…
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I don’t think we’ve mentioned this in the past … from the Tucson Sentinel: Flames will fill an 8-foot-tall ancient Greek kiln replica when students, teachers and community members attend the all-day 10th Greek Kiln Firing on Friday. The event began in 2004 when the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) awarded the AIA Society of…
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This is one of those stories that aggravates me greatly because it seems to provide a ‘scientific’ corroboration for something in Herodotus, and so the evidence of such corroboration would be interesting, but instead the vast majority of the media reports concentrate on ‘implications’ (i.e. it happened 2500 years ago, so it might happen again!).…
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From Bowdoin: Members of the 207-year-old Peucinian Society — a literary group and Bowdoin’s oldest student organization — recently read the complete Iliad aloud from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art steps. In previous years, Peucinian members have read the Odyssey during their annual Homer-a-thon, but this year decided to tackle the longer Iliad. “The…
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Not sure whether this will make it out of the Italian press … the La Repubblica coverage briefly mentions the collapse of an interior wall of a house without one of those fancy schmancy names in Regio V … the area wasn’t open to the public: Ancora un crollo all’interno degli Scavi di Pompei. L’ennesimo…
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