September 9, 2012
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Seen on various lists: Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Notre Dame Applications are invited from specialists in early Greek literature and culture for a two-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Notre Dame to begin in July 2013. We welcome especially applications from candidates whose…
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posted with permission: Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. By Leslie Kurke. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 495. Hardcover, $78.50/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-691-14457-3. Paper, $29.95/£24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14458-0. Reviewed by Page duBois, University of California at San Diego This book is a monumental…
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ante diem v idus septembres ludi Romani (day 5) 490 B.C. — battle of Marathon (by one reckoning) 3 A.D. — Gaius Caesar, adoptive son/grandson of the emperor Augustus, is wounded at Artagira 9 A.D. — Quintilius Varus loses three legions (and his life) in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (a.k.a. the clades Variana)…
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Motus vocis and ancient acoustics.
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The Classical Anthology: Martial Epigrams 5.34 contributed by Francesca Sapsford.
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