July 7, 2012
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nonae iuliae ludi Apollinares (day 2)– games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo feriae Ancillarum — a festival in honour of the “maids” who helped save Rome from a Latin attack…
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NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance: Session 6. [The feed for this one was broken and now is working …. they’re now on day ten and each group has their own blog; if you want to catch up, the main page for the blogs is here … they’re working on a number of different…
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About.com Ancient / Classical History: Another Round of Roman Games.
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quiet cassandra: ‘It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night – and, as obscurely as it began, his career as Trimalchio was over.’.
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Ancient and Modern Olympics: New sports in the Olympic programme.
rogue classicism 