March 2010
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This is Susan Treggiari’s obituary of Dr. Wells as it appeared in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (used with permission): Colin Wells died on 11 March, at Bangor in North Wales, with his family around him, after a short illness. He was born on 15 November 1933. After Nottingham High School, where he was very well…
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A bit out of the period of our purview, but of interest for those first classes of Classical Civ: The oldest stone wall in Greece, which has stood at the entrance of a cave in Thessaly for the last 23,000 years, has been discovered by palaeontologists, the ministry of culture said Monday.The age of the…
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From the Northern Echo: FORMER colleagues will join family and friends at Durham Cathedral for the funeral of a respected classics academic next week.Professor Gavin Townend died following a recent illness at Hallgarth Nursing Home, in Durham City, on Saturday, aged 90. A widower, he survived his wife, Elspeth, by ten years.Their daughter, Julia, who…
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Citanda: Sex in the Service of Aphrodite: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?
Sort of a state-of-the-debate piece: Sex in the Service of Aphrodite: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity? | Spiegel.
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From Balkan Travellers: Around 20 coins with the image of the father of Alexander the Great, Philip II of Macedon, and “other ancient Macedonian rulers” were found by archaeologists during excavations along the road between the south-western Macedonian towns of Ohrid and Struga, national media reported today.In addition to the coins, a space with around…
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