December 7, 2010

  • Amazingly brief item in Kathimerini: The Culture Ministry yesterday rebuffed a report in the Times newspaper suggesting that Minister Pavlos Geroulanos had offered to forgo its claims to the Parthenon Marbles, which are on display at the British Museum, in return for a long-term loan of the artifacts. Sources at the ministry told Skai that…

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  • ante diem vii idus decembres 424 B.C. — accession of Darius II (according to one reckoning) 424 B.C. — battle of Amphipolis (according to one reckoning) 424 B.C. — battle of Delium (according to one reckoning) 43 B.C. — death of Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) as he half-heartedly fled the proscription of Marcus Antonius et…

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