March 19, 2013
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ian Spoor for alerting me to this one which is coming up on BBC4: Episode Six of a thirty-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record…
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seen on the Classics list: 2013 "Villa of the Antonines" Archaeological Field School in Genzano di Roma, Italy, June 30-July 27, 2013 Sponsored by the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies and the Department of Classics & General Humanities at Montclair State University, this field project, now entering its fourth season of work, will continue…
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2013.03.31: Elizabeth Minchin, Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World. Orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9; Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 335. 2013.03.30: John Mouratidis, On the Jump of the Ancient Pentathlon. Nikephoros-Beihefte, Bd 20. 2013.03.29: Lin Foxhall, Gabriele Neher, Gender and the City before Modernity.…
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hypothecate (Dictionary.com) sacrosanct (Merriam-Webster) peruse (Wordsmith) savant (OED) quincunx (Wordnik) Latinitweets: adjective: lentus , lenta, lentum => slow http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 19, 2013 *avunculus, avunculi* m. – great uncle #etymology of English adjective "avuncular" – of or relating to an uncle; kind to a younger person — Latin Vocabulary (@latinwordaday)…
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ante diem xv kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (Day 19) Quinquatrus (Day 1) — a festival celebrating Minerva’s birthday (maybe) rites in honour of Minerva (obviously connected to the above) 11 B.C.E. — Herod dedicates his renovated Temple in Jerusalem 303 A.D. — Martyrdom of Pancharius of Nicomedia 363 A.D. — fire destroys the Temple…
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