January 2, 2013
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We haven’t read claims of the Roman origins of toasting — especially that once-common, and spurious, claim about putting a piece of burnt bread in wine to make it taste better — for a while, but it seems that the latter-day mythologizers persist in wanting to somehow connect toasting to the Romans. The latest is…
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Nice little video on the BBC: Prof Mary Beard’s ‘Roman view’ of new year … and Dr Beard, OBE reflects on the production: An alternative “Thought for the Day”.
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posted with permission: The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings. Third Edition. Edited by RONALD MELLOR. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xxx + 583. Paper, $42.95. ISBN 978-0-415-52716-3. Reviewed by Herbert W. Benario, Emory University When a volume intended for use in a college or university class reaches a…
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ante diem iv nonas januarias 43 B.C. — Octavian is granted propraetorian imperium and admitted to the senate 17 A.D. — death of Publius Ovidius Naso … a.k.a. Ovid 18 A.D. — death of Titus Livius … a.k.a. Livy 69 A.D. — dies imperii of Vitellius 1866 — birth of Gilbert Murray … interesting entry…
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