January 14, 2009
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An excerpt from a piece in the Guardian notes, inter alia: “Blyth Spartans were named after the Greek army,” James Henry points out, before getting to the heart of the matter: “What is the weirdest explanation for a football team’s suffix?” Blyth are named after the Spartan army, the legendary fighting force of the 6th…
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A paper by Simon James (University of Leicester) at the AIA is getting quite a bit of press attention. The abstract doesn’t seem to be online, so we’ll have to give you the gist in our own words. According to James, a deliberately-piled group of twenty Roman soldiers’ bodies found in excavations at Dura Europos…
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Just last week my spiders began picking up items from Live Auctioneers … apparently others have been doing so as well, as both Dorothy King and ARLT mentioned a few days ago on what was actually the first one that popped into my box. Today I get notice of this “1st to 3rd Century Marble…
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Word’s out that there’s a new Roman-themed series in the works, drawing inspiration from “Rome” and “300”, and focussing on the story of Spartacus and his revolting ways. As described by Steven DeKnight, it will be: “a totally R-rated, hard, hard show … There are decapitations, people being split in half … We don’t want…
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UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES, 2008-9, SEMESTER 2 With the exception of the very first meeting, all research seminars are on Thursdays at 5 pm in the Samuel Alexander Building, Room S. 1. 7. CA lectures are on Wednesdays at 5.30 in Room A. 7 of…
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