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From Hurriyet: Roman era blood sports – or at least a mock dramatization thereof – will return to an ancient arena in the southern province of Antalya tomorrow thanks to an initiative to stage gladiator fights for tourists. “The performances will start at 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays,” Mehmet Bıcıoğlu, a consultant for the…
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For those of you who collect images of ancient laptops and ipads, here’s a tweet that should be of interest: https://twitter.com/rainnwilson/status/234062966243328000
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Armand D’Angour has written to inform us that a somewhat shaky video of Boris Johnson’s original oration of Dr. D’Angour’s ode is available at his site. It’s rather dramatic (and funny) and is rather more formal than the plaque-ceremony repeat which we mentioned last week (Boris Johnson Orates Armand D’Angour’s Olympian Ode!!). Here’s a direct…
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My spiders bring back the strangest things … first, this one from AGI: The sixth African anticyclone is on its way for the mid-August holiday and is due to linger for eight to ten days. Antonio Sano’, director of the http://www.ilmeteo.it weather website, warns that the hottest days will be around Sunday when ‘Caligula’ will…
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We don’t often see newspaper articles acknowledge the contribution of ancient Greek to the English language — especially in a Canadian newspaper … a taste in medias res of an item in the Globe and Mail: […] In the unlikely event that you are asked to strip naked in a gym by a philologist, don’t…
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