May 20, 2012
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Posted with permission Josiah Osgood, A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 159. ISBN 978-0-86516-716-2. $19.00. Reviewed by Rex Stem, University of California Davis As the coda to his depiction of Julius Caesar’s assassination, Suetonius notes that when the…
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Nuntii Latini from YLE: De crisi Graeciae oeconomica Erkki Liikanen, moderator Argentariae Finniae, censet causam difficultatum oeconomicarum, quibus Graecia laboret, esse fiscalitatem iniustam. Divites tributa non solvere, illos autem, quorum reditus mediocres aut parvi sint, usque gravioribus tributis vectigalibusque onerari. Bonum successum, quem factiones extremae in comitiis parlamentariis nuper factis habuerint, indignationem civium ostendisse. Sauli…
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ante diem xiii kalendas junias 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea opens (maybe) 1912 — birth of Moses Finley (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, among others) 1957 — death of Gilbert Murray ((History of Ancient Greek Literature, among numerous other things)
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hypnagogic (Merriam Webster) … and the Latin Word of the Day: hodie (Transparent Language) … and dead guys tweeting: https://twitter.com/#!/LiddellandScott/status/203886693441474560 https://twitter.com/#!/LewisandShort/status/203887640066531328
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AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum.
rogue classicism 