July 2, 2009
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I’m sure I’m not the only Classicist who gets some of his sports news from the Bleacher Report, but I might be the only one who caught not one, not two, but three Classical references in Bleacher Report items over the past while. Back on May 21 (sorry … it’s been sitting in my box…
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This is another one from the Italian press which I’ve been hoping would get some notice in the English press, but it doesn’t appear that that will be happening. The Carabinieri have been diving in the sea near Caltanisetta to recover assorted archaeological items which appear to be associated with several periods and several (?)…
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… seen on the Classicists list: *The Alexander Romance in the East* July 26-29, 2010 The University of Exeter’s Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies will be hosting a conference at Exeter which sets out to explore issues and growth points in the study of the Greek…
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Seems like a good time to catch up with a pile of brief news items from the UK that have accumulated over the past few weeks: A caesium vapour magnetometer was used at Caistor St Edmund to get a better idea of the layout of Venta Icenorum: Showcasing the secrets of Caistor Roman town (Physorg)…
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Interesting item from New Scientist which is making the rounds of Slashdot (and I just saw it float past on a couple of Twitter entries too). Here’s the incipit: You might call it “CSI Ancient Greece”. A computer technique can tell the difference between ancient inscriptions created by different artisans, a feat that ordinarily consumes…
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