December 9, 2010
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I doubt this brief item from Japan Times will get much attention elsewhere: An excavation team from Kyoto University working in Lebanon has found a lead plate believed to date from between the second and fourth centuries that was apparently used to invoke the spirits of the dead. The 6-cm-wide, 14.7-cm-long plate, discovered near the…
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ante diem v idus decembres 297 A.D. — martyrs of Samosata 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Leocadia 1667 — birth of William Whiston (translator of Josephus, although better known for other reasons) 1717 — birth of Johann Winckelmann
rogue classicism 