July 2012
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The Getty Iris: What Did Ancient Music Sound Like? [a very interesting post!]
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Tip o’ the pileus to our friends at Scoop.it for picking this one up … it’s a nice little site where you can make your own Roman (geometric) mosaic; teachers might find this a useful way to use a period (I certainly plan to use it in my Math class): Make a Roman mosaic online
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luciferin (Merriam Webster) Latinitweets: adverb: nonne …? , indeclinable => surely … ? http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 19, 2012 conjunction: nisi , indeclinable => unless, except http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 19, 2012 senectus: old age: noun. Example sentence:Cicero multa de senectute scripsit.Translation:Cicero wrote many thing… http://t.co/ufzEm4hc —…
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ante diem xiv kalendas sextilias ¶ Mercatus ¶ Lucaria (day 1) — an obscure festival which seems to be associated with commemorating Rome’s being saved from the Gauls (by hiding in groves?) ¶ 37 A.D. — the emperor Gaius (Caligula) gives the people a congiarium ¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day…
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Hymen, Orpheus, and deviation.
rogue classicism 