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Tip o’ the pileus to the folks at History of the Ancient World (fellow Canucks!) for pointing us to this press release from the University of Reading which we completely missed: Feck! Codswallop! Most of us swear at some point during our lives but we adapt our bad language to different audiences so as not…
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I have long been plotting that we should be ensuring that all our meetings are well-stocked with Pliny the Elder beer, Bloody Caesars, and the like and I think we can now ensure that we have an official cigar, via the Torano folks (who haven’t listed it on their website as of this bloggin) ……
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I think this is one of the reasons my mailbox is so full at times … so many news items try to make some tangential connection between some pop culture phenomenon of the moment and the ancient world. So I think I’ll just wade through them all and let y’all pick and choose for yourself…
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Another tip o’ the pileus to Ellen Bauerle for pointing us to this iPad retelling of Odysseus’ voyage; first, check out the video: Looks like it’s geared towards the younger set, but I’m sure some rogueclassicism readers would get a kick out of it. I haven’t had a chance to download and play with it,…
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As might be expected, there has been a pile of attention in the popular press being paid to the ancient version of the Olympics and I figured it would be a useful thing to gather a bunch of them together in one post to give you some way to kill time while you were waiting…
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