August 3, 2012
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As long as we’re talking about our favourite mayor of London, we might as well mention this item from the travel pages of the Australian … Johnson is taking the writer on a bicycle tour of the city … an excerpt of the Classical bits: […] Boris has written a book on “the people that…
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Tip ‘o the pileus to Max Nelson of UWindsor fame for pointing us to some more beer brands to have at our ultimate Classical conference. We’ll just mention in passing this Caesar Augustus (a lager/IPA hybrid … hmmmm) and Julius (which is no longer in production). I was almost disappointed in the Hadrian Border Brewery’s…
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Several tips ‘o the pileus accrue to Caroline Lawrence, who attended the unveiling of the official plaque — they’re big on plaques in the UK — commemorating Dr D’Angour’s Pindar-inspired Olympian Ode, at which event Boris Johnson reprised his performance thereof. It does not appear to be the sort of thing which could have been…
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ante diem iii nonas sextilias ¶ supplicia canum — a ritual which was the ‘fallout’ from the story of the geese saving Rome from the Gauls; as punishment to the ‘watchdogs’ who didn’t bark, every year the Romans would crucify a dog ¶ 8 A.D. — victory of the future emperor Tiberius at Illyricum ¶ 178 A.D.…
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AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics.
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