NUNTII: Television Listings

The weekly version of my Ancient World on Television listings have been posted. Enjoy!

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:56:48 PM::
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REVIEWS: From BMCR

Maria Eugenia Aubet, The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies
and Trade.

Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths.

David Mulroy, The War Against Grammar. 

Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer.

Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter (edd.), Andreia: Studies in Manliness and
Courage in Classical Antiquity.

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 7:42:08 PM::
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THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY

ante diem xii kalendas januarias

• Saturnalia (day 5)
• Divalia Angeronae -- Angerona was a goddess named for the disease
  angina (she apparently had remedies for it) who also represented
  the 'secret name' of Rome, which presumably could not be uttered
  out of fear it would give Rome's enemies the opportunity to 'call
  out' Rome's own gods (i.e. to get them to abandon the city). Secret
  rituals, of course, would honour her on this date ...
• 69 A.D. -- Vespasian is officially recognized as emperor by the
  Senate
• 253 A.D. -- martyrdom of Themistocles in Lycia
• 303 A.D. -- martyrdom of Glycerius of Nicomedia

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:26:07 PM::
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CHATTER

Perhaps it is fixed as mysteriously as it began???

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:11:57 PM::
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NUNTII: Akropolis World News

Here's the latest news from AWN -- news in Classical Greek (click on the headlines for the text):

UK sets out airport expansion plan - Scientist creates world's largest book - Milosevic petulant at trial
     
Saddam Hussein has been captured - Pavarotti gets married with his former secretary

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:00:55 PM::
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NUNTII: Nuntii Latini

[This is my fifth attempt at posting this] Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini is back on the webwaves! Here's the latest headlines, which now link directly to the Latin text of individual stories:

Saddam Hussein captus

Quid George Bush dixerit

Summus conventus Unionis

Res aeronautica centum annorum

Comitia Russiae

Saddamum in Iraquia latere

Audi ...

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:00:07 PM::
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NUNTII: Latest Explorator

Issue 6.34 of Explorator is available for your perusal. Enjoy!

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:58:05 AM::
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CHATTER

This is just a post to see if it actually gets posted ... I'm having a heck of a morning here ... first my Google News alerts have all fallen silent (problem at their end), my backflip files which have all my shortcuts to news sites are unavailable, my blog program has only posted half of what i sent out so far this a.m. (this is actually to see if it all gets erased since it has disappeared from my local copy on reboot) ... to top it all off, I appear to have an infection in the tip of my index finger (ouch) and my wife just informed me that she accidentally made Folger's instead of the rather more effective Huehuetenango ... i'm not sure I should leave the house.

In any event, if you see weird stuff happening here over the course of the day it's probably me experimenting/trying to fix things.

*** For the record, it did get erased. Dang.

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:56:28 AM::
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More Chatter ...

great fear that this wipes all the previous stuff out again ...

[it did ...]

::Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:54:36 AM::
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