February 2013
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This trailer just popped up on Youtube … perhaps of interest (it is performed in Greek):
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Seen on the Classicists list: A Three Day CONFERENCE on the theme "Subversion and Censorship in Antiquity and After" October 2-4, 2013 Papers are invited from scholars and researchers in the Humanities to explore important themes on the limitations of freedom of expression (in act, thought or speech). Although papers of the more traditional focus…
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Brief item from Hurriyet: During works carried out in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, three glass bracelets from the early Roman era have been unearthed. The excavations are being conducted in the Meram and Selçuklu districts of Konya, as well as in the Gökyurt village and the Kızılören neighborhood within the borders of the…
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posted with permission: A Written Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical Politics. By Yelena Baraz. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 252. Hardcover. $45.00/£30.00. ISBN 978-0-691-15332-2. Reviewed by Jonathan P. Zarecki, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro In this well-written and thought-provoking book, Yelena Baraz engages with the prefaces of Cicero’s philosophical works…
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varia (Dictionary.com) recuse (Merriam-Webster) olid (OED) Latinitweets: verb 3 deponent: egredior , egredi, egressus sum => go out http://t.co/X9pcrLWUX2 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) February 22, 2013 dēdĭtĭo, ōnis, f. dedo, a (military) giving up, a surrender, capitulation (freq. in the historians). — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) February 21, 2013 φρίσσωAtt. φρίττω : fut.…
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