July 2012
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Just came across this while doing a bit of community service/outreach in various Reddit fora: Latin Memes … not sure if it’s still active (and there’s one there which you probably can’t share with a class of high schoolers), but you might like some of them …
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Other than Classics, one of my obsessions is football of the North American variety (and increasingly the Australian variety as well, when I figure out when it is on TV here), in connection with which I have a separate twitter account (@mistermeadows) which I use to tweet during games (along with piles of other fans)…
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This one’s making the rounds of assorted social media thingies … via Incidental Comics: via: INCIDENTAL COMICS
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posted with permission: Melissa Lane, Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtues, and Sustainable Living. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 245. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-15124-3. Reviewed by Susan A. Curry, University of New Hampshire Melissa Lane’s Eco-Republic is a very good example of what I hope is a…
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This one’s been percolating in various papers for the past couple of days, but the Telegraph takes it that extra step by providing the text (which I’ve been waiting for): Mr Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford, will recite the poem that he commissioned for the Games in both Greek and English. The ode was…
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