July 12, 2012
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Here’s one that’s been in my box for a while, and there haven’t been any followups, alas … from Hurriyet: A sarcophagus covered with figures depicting Eros and Medusa and believed to date from the Roman period has been found in the sea near the location of the ancient city of Justinianopolis, in the southern…
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anthophilous (Merriam Webster) pudeur (Wordsmith) pinguid (OED) paronymous (Dictionary.com) funge (Worthless Word for the Day) Latinitweets: verb 3: pono , ponere, posui, positus => put, place, put up http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 12, 2012 copia: abundance, supply, amount: noun. Example sentence:Pompeius Caesari magnam copiam pecuniae dabit.Translati… http://t.co/iZom0UsM — Latin Language (@latinlanguage)…
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ante diem iv idus quintiles ludi Apollinares (day 7) — 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 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar 67 A.D. — martyrdom of…
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The Homer Multitext: Manuscript Collation in the 21st Century.
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NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance: Session 8.
rogue classicism 