February 19, 2009
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From All News Web, and as with our previous ghost stories, FWIW: A hotel in Romania recently became a site of interest for ghost hunters after a local photographed what appears to be a female spirit standing above its lobby stairwell. The hotel, named the Decebal, is situated in the mountain spa resort of Baile…
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A tantalizingly brief item from l’Unita reports the discovery of a Roman City in Algeria: Alcuni resti archeologici sono stati scoperti a Zerdaza, a sud di Skikda, nell’est dell’Algeria. La scoperta e’ stata casuale, durante la costruzione di una casa. Secondo le prime analisi i resti appartenevano alla citta’ romana di Tabsus, che sorgeva sulle…
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Every week (it seems) I wade through piles of editorial flotsam and jetsam which claims the U.S. is like the Roman Empire, yadda yadda yadda, so it’s semi-refreshing when one reads a parallel like this incipit from Investor’s Chronicle: The situation of Lloyds Bank puts one in mind of Greek tragedy. For instance, Aeschylus’ “The…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: SCIENTISTS AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD CONFERENCE SCHOOL OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS 7-9 SEPTEMBER 2009 The technical and scientific writing of Graeco-Roman antiquity has been the focus of systematic scholarly study in recent decades. Attention has been mainly directed towards the textual means through which ancient technical and scientific…
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A review of Simon Sebag-Montefiore , Heroes: History’s Greatest Men and Women at Mercator.net concludes thusly: There was one glaring error: Alexander the Great’s height is given as 4’ 6”; but would make him the same height as the crippled poet Alexander Pope, and is never mentioned by the ancient authorities; surely the author means 5’…
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