July 26, 2012
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So there’s some sort of restoration of an old flour mill outside Cambridge, part of which included restoration of a statue of Ceres which was commissioned for the building ages ago (but not ancient ages). Townsfolk are arguing over whether it’s Ceres or Demeter … Mary Beard was consulted at some point. Here’s a bit…
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This popped up in my ‘recommended’ column at Youtube … probably won’t stay up long but it was an okay version if you’ve never seen it … it was a minseries back in the late 90s (IMDB) … Armand Assante was the Ithacan … Greta Scacchi is Penelope … couldn’t quite get Bernadette Peters as…
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ante diem vii kalendas sextilias ¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 7) ¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 9) ¶ 110 A.D. — martyrdom of Hyacinthus ¶ 1893 — birth of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational) … and I posted this a few years ago and like it, so here’s some fun…
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About.com Ancient / Classical History: Aeneid Preface Quiz.
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Digital Classicist seminars: Digitising the Prosopography of the Roman Republic Maggie Robb.
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