April 2012
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Laudator Temporis Acti: A Poem by Agathias Scholasticus.
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ante diem v idus apriles ludi Megalesia continue (day 6) 193 A.D. — Septimius Severus given the rank of Augustus
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Saw this a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times (inter alia): The story of his influence on the Princeton project is told by the American technology historian, George Dyson, in his book “Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.” A compelling book, if puzzlingly discursive at times, it describes how a…
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Seen on various lists: Bologna University Greek and Latin Summer School (25th June – 13th July 2012) The Department of Classics and Italian studies of Bologna University welcomes applications to its intensive Greek and Latin Summer School (http://www.ficlit.unibo.it/dipartimento/summer-school). Registration is now open. The school offers courses in Greek and Latin language (at different levels: beginners…
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2012.04.09: Lee Fratantuono, Madness Transformed: a Reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 2012.04.08: James J. O’Hara, Vergil. Aeneid Book 4. Focus Vergil Aeneid commentaries. 2012.04.07: Jennifer R. Ballengee, The Wound and the Witness. The Rhetoric of Torture. 2012.04.06: Lucia Athanassaki, Ewen Bowie, Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination. Trends in Classics – supplementary volumes,…
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