April 2012
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Cambridge News gives us a glimpse into how our favourite Cambridge Don spends her waking hours: Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at Cambridge and a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog “A Don’s Life”, which appears in The Times as a…
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ante diem iv nonas apriles 13 A.D. — Augustus writes his will 33 A.D. — one of the calculated dates for the crucifixion of Jesus 68 A.D. — Galba rails against Nero and declares himself vir militaris (source?) 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Irene, Agape, and Chionia
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with a guy I confess I knew little about until I watched this: Honorius: Emperors of Rome
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Tip o’ the pileus to Amy Burvall for alerting us to this via Twitter: … and we might as well include the Alexander the Great one too: … and the Persian v Greeks comparative thing:
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ante diem iii nonas apriles 1640 — death of the Polish Jesuit/Latin poet Matthias Casimir Sarbiewski
rogue classicism 