June 9, 2012
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Man .. I swear if I lived in LA I’d be at the Getty all the time … check out what began this weekend: Get the scoop on the fashion trends of ancient Rome—from soldiers and senators to slaves and aristocrats—during live runway shows at the Getty Villa most weekends beginning Saturday, June 9 until…
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Ambitious project reported by the Cambridge News: Young pupils at a Cambridge school are to attempt a dramatic world first – learning to speak ancient Greek in a single day, and then performing a Greek play on stage. The remarkable project will feature 9 and 10-year-olds at St Faith’s School, with the play being put…
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2012.06.14: Andreas Mehl, Roman Historiography: an Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development (translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller; first published 2001). Blackwell introductions to the classical world. 2012.06.13: Josine Schrickx, Lateinische Modalpartikeln: Nempe, Quippe, Scilicet, Videlicet und Nimirum. Amsterdam studies in classical philology, 19. 2012.06.12: André Laronde, Pierre Toubert, Jean Leclant, Histoire et archéologie méditerranéennes sous…
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Some more things (memes) found during my recent trip to Reddit, this time, to their Latin page… a series from EarlyRising_Redditor … for reasons unknown, these won’t link directly to the image, so: Latin Problems I Latin Problems II Latin Problems III Latin Problems IV Latin Problems V
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The Express has a piece (for reasons unknown … but it’s written by Matthew Dennison, whose 12 Caesars is getting reviewed all over the place) about the excesses of assorted emperors. Here’s the incipit: IN AD 37 the new Roman Emperor Gaius, better known by the nickname Caligula, built a bridge across the sea. It…
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