May 10, 2010
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I’m not a big fan of these sorts of things (outside, maybe, Disneyland vel simm) and their attendant unreality and light pollution, but perhaps someone amongst our readers likes them … from ANSA: This year’s sound-and-light tours at Pompeii promise to be the most spectacular yet, organisers said Wednesday. “There’ll be completely new content and…
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Wow … it seems like every newspaper has someone trotting down to the local ludus to play gladiator. This time its a mostly-touristy piece in the Daily Mail about the Gruppo Storico Romano’s efforts in this regard in their little school “just off the Appian Way”: Rome breaks: The Colosseum of weekends for Alice Beer…
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Richard Stoneman is the guest in a podcastish sort of thing from Australia’s ABC … not sure what the shelf life of it is: Alexander the Great: a life in legend – RN Book Show – 10 May 2010.
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ante diem vi idus maias 214 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Claudius II Gothicus 232 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and Palmatius 238 A.D. — murder of Maximinus Thrax (by one reckoning) 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Epimachus at Alexandria 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphius, Philadelphus, Cyrinus, and Benedicta at Leontini (?)
rogue classicism 