May 2006

  • Piles of stuff, of course: The ARLT blog has solved its bandwidth problems (it appears), and a plethora of posts awaits at the main page … Bread and Circuses has an interesting woodcut depiction of Arminius’ battle … there’s also a link to Heliodorus’ Aethiopica … PhDiva DK is looking at the temple of Triptolemos…

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  • From the Guardian: A dig into the rich past of a tiny isle in the Aegean archipelago could soon answer one of the riddles of prehistoric archaeology: why the remote outcrop produced so many of the flat-faced marble figurines that went on to inspire Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore. Greek and British archaeologists hope their…

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