May 2011

  • About a month ago we mentioned a vague item about some looting at the site of Elefsina; we now learn that arrests have been made. From ANA: Attica prefecture security police announced late Thursday that they have solved in cooperation with Culture Ministry the April 15, 2011 case of a major theft of antiquities from…

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  • I’ve really got to start doing some serious stretching before I start reading email these days; I think I just injured myself shaking my head for the umpteenth time … from China Daily: Construction has begun on a 200 million yuan ($30 million) project to restore the ancient town of Liqian from its ruins in…

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  • ante diem vi kalendas junias 189 A.D. — birth of P. Septimius Geta, son of the emperor-to-be Septimius Severus and Julia Domna and brother of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla) 270 A.D. — martyrdom of Restituta at Sora (?) 302 A.D. — Martyrdom of Julius at Durostorum 1265 — birth of Dante Alighieri

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  • ante diem vii kalendas junias 17 A.D. — Germanicus celebrates a triumph for his victories in Germany 106 A.D. — martyrdom of Zachary in Gaul 107 A.D. — Trajan arrives in Rome and celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Dacians 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Felicissimus, Heraclius, and others at what is now…

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  • Seen on the Classicists list: *CALL FOR PAPERS* «POETIC LANGUAGE AND RELIGION IN GREECE AND ROME» SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, MAY, 31 MAY / 1 JUNE, 2012 We welcome paper proposals for the Conference on «Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome», organized by the Research Group on Classical Philology at the University of Santiago…

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