November 13, 2012
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posted with permission: Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. By Eric W. Robinson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. ix + 275. Hardcover, £63.00/$103.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84331-7. Reviewed by Sydnor Roy, Temple University This book provides an overview of democracies that have some attestation in the Classical period (480–323).…
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The folks at Chiron sent this one along: Chiron has always supported the direct method for teaching classical languages. In other time Comenius already encouraged to avoid an excessive use of grammar in teaching. Nowadays methods such as Ørberg LLPSI, Rouse’s Greek boy or Athenaze are more and more usual in our classrooms. Today more…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Amy Burvall for alerting us to this art project … a bit of the official description should be enough to get you to click through: In “Heavenly Bodies” NASA is playing a part in the maintenance of our gods. Cesar Augustus was declared upon his death a god in 14BC.…
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posted with permission: Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology. By Giovanna Ceserani. Greeks Overseas. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 348. Hardcover, $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974427-5. Reviewed by Alun D. Williams, Cardiff University. The study of Greek colonization has seen something of a resurgence in recent…
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eructation (Merriam-Webster) cymophanous (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 1: silva , silvae, f => wood http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 13, 2012 ira: anger: noun. Example sentence:Maximum remedium irae mora est.Translation:The greatest remedy for anger is delay. http://t.co/D2kefLnf — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) November 13, 2012 *pravus, prava, pravum* adj – wicked, perverse #etymology of…
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