August 24, 2009
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We can add the author of the recently-released The Last Ember to the list … from the Courier-Journal: New York author Daniel Levin has garnered rave reviews for his debut suspense novel, “The Last Ember” — a fictional thriller set in Rome and the Middle East. Advertisement Jonathan Marcus, the book’s protagonist, and Dr. Emili…
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Seen on various lists (from the Daily Hampshire Gazette): Elizabeth Lyding Will, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, died peacefully on Aug. 19, 2009, at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst. She was 85 years old. Considered the world authority on the ancient Roman shipping containers called amphoras,…
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Sigh of relief after reading this item from Bloomberg: A significant archaeological site in Greece escaped damage during weekend fires and is deemed safe, a Culture Ministry spokesman said. The site at Ramnounta, which is believed to be one of Greece’s first municipalities from antiquity, isn’t threatened by the fires, the country’s worst since 2007,…
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Something a little different this year … here’s the final clip of the 1960 Last Days of Pompeii (it’s the part where the volcano erupts etc. … very cheesy): If you want to watch the whole thing … begin here (then click the links in the info boxes). Wired has a nice feature on the…
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ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8th ) at which time the gates of the…
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