November 26, 2012
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a week, hoping there’d be a bit more coverage, but the National Geographic seems to have an exclusive. Some excerpts: It’s no tall tale—the first complete ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism has been discovered near Rome, a new study says. At 6 feet, 8 inches (202…
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The Cambridge Journals online folks have put some articles from vol. 59 of Greece and Rome up for free for a while (until mid-January), including: Alison Rosenblitt, Rome and North Korea: Totalitarian Questions James Robson,Transposing Aristophanes: The Theory and Practice of Translating Aristophanic Lyric Sean Corner, Did ‘Respectable’ Women Attend Symposia? Malcolm Heath, Greek Literature…
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Christopher Gill mentioned this project over on the Classicists list … a group of Philosophy students from Exeter are going to ‘live like a Stoic’ … here’s a video describing the project: … and, of course, they’re blogging their progress: Stoicism and its Modern Uses
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posted with permission: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics. By Philip Thibodeau. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 326. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN 978-0-520-26832-6. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College Its author describes this book as a “large-scale exercise in compare-and-contrast” between the Georgics and the…
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sederunt (Merriam-Webster) bursiform (Wordsmith) pudeur (OED) Latinitweets: noun 3: iuvenis , iuvenis, m => young man http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) November 26, 2012 multus: much, many: adjective. Example sentence:Fortuna multis hominibus dat nimis, satis nulli. Translation:For… http://t.co/MKMbAOKQ — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) November 26, 2012
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