Nice little video report on an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums:
Day: October 26, 2012
Matters Ampersandish
This is really on the periphery of our purview, but is really interesting:
Recent PAS Finds
I’m sure Owen Jarus’ latest piece for LiveScience will get plenty of play this weekend … they’ll probably alter the headline, though:
… on a semi-related note, the old folks used to have an expression which went something like “it doesn’t play in Peoria” … I think we Classicists might use “It doesn’t play in San Antonio”:
I can only imagine what all this will do to my search engine placement …
Classical Words of the Day
- immure (Merriam Webster)
- reliquary (OED)
- satanophany (Wordnik)
Latinitweets:
This Day in Ancient History:
ante diem vii kalendas novembres
- ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
- 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
- 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
- ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
- 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled (perhaps portrayed here?)
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