Cambridge Classical Journals Freebies

From the mailbag:

We are pleased to announce that the 2012 volume of The Cambridge Classical Journal (http://journals.cambridge.org/ccj ) is now online with Cambridge Journals. To celebrate we are pleased to offer complimentary access to three key papers from the new volume. Simply click on the links below to enjoy access to these articles until 31st January 2013.

Horace, Odes 3.27: A New World For Galatea
Elizabeth Mitchell
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1750270512000061

The ‘Phoenician Letters’ of Dictys of Crete and Dionysus Scytobrachion
Karen Ní Mheallaigh
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1750270512000103

Tragedy and the Seductions of Philosophy
Miriam Leonard
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1750270512000048

Classical Words of the Day

Latinitweets:

This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas januarias

pridie nonas januarias

  • ludi compitales — day two of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of the festival, presumably as offerings to the Lares. There would also follow more formal sacrifices at the compita (places where two farm paths crossed).
  • 1785 — birth of Jacob Grimm