August 2009
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Seen on AegeaNet: The editors of Aegean Archaeology are pleased to announce that vol. 8 (2005-2006) is out. For contents, please see below. For any further details (abstracts of articles, contents of previous volumes, PDFs of selected articles, ordering info) please consult our website at http://www.iaepan.edu.pl/AEA/ Contents of Vol 8: M. Georgiadis, The Prehistoric Finds…
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seen on the Classicists list: International Congress, Osnabrueck, 14th-18th September 2009: Fines imperii, imperium sine fine? Rome – Empire between resistance and integration In celebration of the 2000th anniversary of the Varus battle of A.D. 9, University and City of Osnabrück, in corporation with the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, are organising an international five-day…
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pridie kalendas septembres 12 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Gaius (Caligula) at Antium 40 A.D. — Gaius (Caligula) celebrates an ovatio after his attempted military campaigns in Gaul and Britain 161 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Commodus (and his twin, Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus)
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The incipit of a piece in the apparently indicatively-named LocalIQ: Have you ever imagined Cleopatra, in 26 BC, staring up at the sky at Polaris — the North Star and bright and pointy handle of the constellation called The Little Dipper — and wondered how different it looked to her than it does to you…
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Excerpt from an interesting item about a burial from Aigai in the Associated Press: The find in the ruins of Aigai came a few meters (yards) from last year’s remarkable discovery of what could be the bones of Alexander the Great’s murdered teenage son, according to one expert. Archaeologists are puzzled because both sets of…
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