January 22, 2013

  • seen on the Classicists list: Nox erat: Night and Nocturnal Activities in the Ancient World 17th Annual Classics Graduate Student Colloquium University of Virginia March 23, 2013 From lovers’ trysts to covens of witches, from all-night parties to midnight raids, from dreams to insomnia, night in the ancient world is far from an empty darkness…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: The Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric (COR), Royal Holloway, University of London, announces an international conference entitled From Antiphon to Autocue: Speechwriting Ancient and Modern to take place at RHUL’s central London venue in Bedford Square on 25 and 26 of April 2013. Confirmed speakers include experts on ancient Greek…

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    gorgonize (Dictionary.com) euchre (Merriam-Webster … I always thought it was Greek) fritillary (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 3 : labor , laboris, m => work http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) January 22, 2013 lapis: stone: noun. Example sentence:Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.Translation:The drop hollows … http://t.co/NbM9bLis — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) January 22,…

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  • ante diem xi kalendas januarias ludi palatini (day 2/5) – the theatrefest continues

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  • Blogosphere ~ The Swerve

    Ancient Rome Refocused: The Swerve.

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