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Reply 80

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by Sappho
Now look at this, this is how learning about politics is fun: http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardus_Miliband


Am I the only one who knew not of the existence of a LATIN WIKIPEDIA?!

Goodbye, free time.

Reply 81

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by RosyAurora
Am I the only one who knew not of the existence of a LATIN WIKIPEDIA?!

Goodbye, free time.

It's so good fun, if you've nothing to do, you can look for articles that don't exist and write something :biggrin:

Reply 82

Original post
by Sappho
Now look at this, this is how learning about politics is fun: http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardus_Miliband
Yeah, the Latin Wikipedia is fun. It's a shame that there don't seem to be many articles that aren't very short though: even the pages on Londinium (London), Lutetia (Paris), Berolinum (Berlin) and Matritum (Madrid), for example, aren't particularly in-depth (though Berolinum has the largest of the four). But it's definitely a fun way to learn. I might add to the Universitas Mancuniensis page sometime.

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by Planar
I agree that he is more similar to Catiline, but I was just picking the melodrama and absurdity that Cicero sometimes engages in, and showing that that is a bit like Ed Miliband. The moron
Haha. Erm, always happy to be your soapbox. :tongue:

EDIT: But I do agree that his recent comparison of the TUC march with the Suffragette movement and other such "glorious struggles" was probably a little emetic, or at least arrogant!
(edited 14 years ago)

Reply 83

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by jismith1989
Yeah, the Latin Wikipedia is fun. It's a shame that there don't seem to be many articles that aren't very short though: even the pages on Londinium (London), Lutetia (Paris), Berolinum (Berlin) and Matritum (Madrid), for example, aren't particularly in-depth (though Berolinum has the largest of the four). But it's definitely a fun way to learn. I might add to the Universitas Mancuniensis page sometime.

Haha. Erm, always happy to be your soapbox. :tongue:


I too have thought of adding, I'm also part of another thing discussing scholia, grammar, syntaxis etc in ancient Greek though I haven't even looked at it in some while.

Although as I'm sure you know, third year hardly gives one much free time. Even now my dissertation is pulling on the halter, so to speak. :tongue:

Reply 84

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenae

Yei, it has Athens :biggrin: and a picture of the building I took my degree in :biggrin:

Reply 85

Bloody Germans.

Reply 86

Okay, I've already given up attempting to read that German book

Reply 87

hahahaha that made me laugh!! What is the book about? :tongue:

Reply 88

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by Xristina

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by Xristina
hahahaha that made me laugh!! What is the book about? :tongue:


Cicero and Caesar and Catiline, only it's one of those annoying ones without a bloody index so I had to read loads to try and get anything. I'll try again tomorrow morning :sigh:

Reply 89

Less xenophobia please! :p: I'm sure you'll be much better at tackling it in the morning, Steffi. If it's really tough to understand, I'm sure you can find something equally useful in English though.

Original post
by Xristina
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenae

Yei, it has Athens :biggrin: and a picture of the building I took my degree in :biggrin:
Looks like a beautiful place!

Reply 90

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by jismith1989

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by jismith1989
Less xenophobia please! :p: I'm sure you'll be much better at tackling it in the morning, Steffi. If it's really tough to understand, I'm sure you can find something equally useful in English though.


Hopefully, though it's not as useful as something other things anyway. It's no key piece by any stretch.

And as the essay is due in on Monday, everything left is German (with a tiny bit of French).

Reply 91

Thank god for perseus!

Reply 92

Original post
by Sappho
It's so good fun, if you've nothing to do, you can look for articles that don't exist and write something :biggrin:


As much as I'd love to, my skill is lacking :frown:

Reply 93

Still not over the fact that they've gotten rid of one of the classics forums...

Reply 94

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by steffi.alexa
Still not over the fact that they've gotten rid of one of the classics forums...

We should complain to someone. Do you have an idea whom we could ask?

Reply 95

Original post
by Sappho

Original post
by Sappho
We should complain to someone. Do you have an idea whom we could ask?


We could post in AAM or About TSR, not really sure. No doubt we'd get the response of 'Well, it's not used'. We should try and liven up this forum to add to our cause :sparta:

Reply 96

Meh it's symptomatic of society, ah well.

Reply 97

Oh daaaamn. The Classics forum is on the front page. Oh yeah :cool:

Nothing to do with the time, of course :ninja:

Reply 98

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by The Lyceum
Meh it's symptomatic of society, ah well.


I know :angry: Makes me mad.

Reply 99

Oh man, two classics threads on the front page. Vidi, vici, veni.

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