Nuntii Latini Graecique

From YLE (October 1):

Coetus Nationum Unitarum

Die Martis (25.9.) coetus generalis Nationum Unitarum in urbe New York sessionem inauguralem habuit. Hoc in conventu Barack Obama, praesidens Civitatum Americae Unitarum, orationem fecit, qua cum alias res attigit tum Iranianos hortatus est, ne armis nuclearibus fabricandis operam darent.

“Americani”, inquit, “ad omnia facienda parati sunt, ut prohibeant, ne Irania arma atomica sibi comparet. Idem praemonuit Iranianis spatium temporis infinitum non datum iri ad programma nucleare deponendum.”

… also from YLE on October 1: De comitiis Belorussiae …Populatio piscium deminuetur … De ballaenis captandis … Hispania viatoribus gaudet…Memoria Americi Vespucci … Brad de Veluwe equus victor

From YLE (October 5):

Alveus fluminis in Marte repertus

Vehiculum, quod mense Augusto in Martem descendit, glaream et lapides invenit, quae pristinum flumen in alveo suo portavit. Lapides rotundati ostendunt aquam e longinquo magna vi fluxisse. Photographemata illius alvei die quinto decimo mensis Septembris in Terram missa sunt.

Neque investigatoribus novum est, quod aqua in Marte olim exstitit, sed nullus fluminis alveus antea repertus est. Propositum maximi momenti est carbonem et signa de condicionibus vitae microbiorum opportunis quaerere, an in Marte umquam fuerint aut adhuc sint.

… more from YLE on October 5: Cubicularius Papae ante iudices … Impetus cardiaci frigore augentur … Inopia laboris in Eurozona maxima

… and on the Nuntii Graeci side:

Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews

  • 2012.10.09:  Heather Jackson, John Tidmarsh, Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, volume 3: the pottery. Mediterranean archaeology supplement, 7.
  • 2012.10.08:  Michael Decker, Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. Oxford studies in Byzantium.
  • 2012.10.07:  Joseph Roisman, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: the Evidence (translations by J. C. Yardley). Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history.
  • 2012.10.06:  Enzo Lippolis, Giorgio Rocco, Archeologia greca: cultura, società, politica e produzione. Sintesi.
  • 2012.10.05:  Patrizia Arena, Feste e rituali a Roma: il principe incontra il popolo nel Circo Massimo. Documenti e studi, 45.
  • 2012.10.04:  Richmond Lattimore, Richard Martin, The Iliad of Homer (new introduction and notes by Richard Martin; first published 1951).
  • 2012.10.03:  Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis, Plutarch’s Dialogue on Love: An Intermediate Greek Reader.
  • 2012.10.02:  Javier Martínez, Mundus vult decipi: estudios interdisciplinares sobre falsificación textual y literaria.
  • 2012.09.60:  Claudio De Stefani, Galeni, De differentiis febrium libri duo arabice conversi. Altera, 1.

Classical Words of the Day

Latinitweets:

This Day in Ancient History: nonas octobres

nonas octobres

  • rites in honour of Jupiter Fulgur — the deity who was responsible for daytime lightning was worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
  • rites in honour of Juno Quiritis — a divinity possibly originally from Falerii and brought to Rome by evocatio in 241 B.C. was also worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 3 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 19-23 A.D.)
  • 15 B.C. — birth of Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus “Minor”), son of the future emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina
  • 1st century A.D. (?) — martyrdom of Sergius and Bacchus … and Apuleius