March 20, 2009
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Tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin for alerting us to a post at Blogging Pompeii about a new item installed at the National Museum of Naples’ Herculaneum section. For a full description, visit Blogging Pompeii, which includes this image (which is also available in much larger format there): The official description suggests this is…
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The discussion (and interest) continues, it appears, so I’ve appended an important abstract from a forthcoming paper by the folks who did the forensic examination of the bones claimed as Arsinoe’s … scroll down to Update IV …
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As I clean up my mail backlog, I find I am risking a serious injury from all the mind boggling claims of the past few days … an excerpt from a piece about the history of wine from the Jefferson Post: Engel shared with wine aficionados that the ancient Egyptians were the first to reserve…
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I’m never quite sure whether I should bother to mention when folks bring up Classical matters in letters to the editor — nine times out of ten, there is some glaring factual error — but here’s a trio of mentions which might be of interest. First, a letter to the Times advocating operating in imitation…
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A few weeks ago we mentioned a post by Poseidon in the World Weekly News in which he claimed responsibility for what was going on in Australia. It seems that Poseidon has a regular column in that now-web-only publication, so if you want to catch up with the divinity-o-the-deep’s resurgence, here be his three columns…
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