May 28, 2009
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Brief item from ANSA: Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole,…
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From a UBristol press release: A scholarly project to document and analyse all known images of mythology from the Greek, Roman and Etruscan civilisations, has reached it culmination with the appearance of the last two volumes of the 20-volume series. The project, known as LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae), was begun in the early 1970s.…
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The latest installment of Dear Socrates is up at Philosophy Now … the hemlock-imbiber somewhat anachronistically makes reference to Jesus in this one …
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The News Post Journal provides a fine example of journalists trying to make extremely tenuous connections to modern political events, in this case, the assorted financial adventures of assorted Members of Parliament. The item is brief, so: ANCIENT Roman writing tablets found near Hadrian’s Wall, suggest public officials were on the take 1,900 years ago.…
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Juliette Harrisson — a PhD candidate at UBirmingham — scripsit: I’m e-mailing to inform you of a new Classics blog which I have just started. It is called Pop Classics and posts informal reviews of Classics in popular culture; everything from The Life of Brian to a brief mention of The Aeneid in Red Dwarf.…
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