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Month: February 2013
Podcast: IOT Epicureanism
Latest from Melvyn Bragg and the In Our Time folks:
… something to listen to while digging out …
Classical Words of the Day
impudent (Wordsmith)
paraselene (Wordnik)
Latinitweets:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi idus februarias
ante diem vi idus februarias
- 293 B.C. — dedication of a Temple of Quirinus by Papirius Cursor (the temple having been vowed/begun by his similarly-named dictator father) which had a sundial associated with it somehow
- 291 B.C. — possible date for the arrival of the cult of Aesculapius at Rome
- 1827 — Death of William Mitford (History of Greece … perhaps on February 10)
- 1909 — birth of David Daube
Blogosphere ~ APA Blog : CONF: 7th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel
American Philological Association: APA Blog : CONF: 7th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel.