September 27, 2012

  • Clearly A Slow News Day …

    From the Local comes a somewhat bizarre sorta Classical sorta not item: A mayor from southern Sweden has been slammed for paying an artist friend 600,000 kronor ($91,584) in public funds to paint a depiction of the mayor dressed as a Roman legionary as part of a mural in the local council’s building. “I have…

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  • This one is starting to get silly … yesterday we had — from a reliable source, apparently — word that Harvard Theological Review was declining to publish Dr. King’s paper on some fragment of papyrus that’s been in the news of late. Later in the day, however, we were told that that wasn’t true, again…

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  • Classical Words of the Day:

    austral (Dictionary.com festinate (Merriam Webster) adhibit (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: noun 2: modus , modi, m => manner, way, kind http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) September 27, 2012 Memento mori: Memento Mori is a Latin sentence meaning “remember you will die” and is used to call to a person’s… http://t.co/c5bEx6a7 — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) September…

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  • ante diem v kalendas octobres 70 A.D. — Roman armies break through the walls of the upper city of Jerusalem (by one reckoning)

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  • Awilum.com: Reflections on the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” Saga.

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