June 3, 2011
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Tip o’ the pileus (Piraeus?) to Terrence Lockyer for bringing this abstract from Geology to our attention: The famous Greek geographer Strabo wrote in the first century A.D., that Piraeus was formerly an island and lay ‘over against’ the mainland, from which it got its name. To validate Strabo’s hypothesis, cartographic and historical data were…
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Interesting feature up at the Met’s website … here’s a tease: The “Mask of Agamemnon” is one of the most famous gold artifacts from the Greek Bronze Age. Found at Mycenae in 1876 by the distinguished archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, it was one of several gold funeral masks found laid over the faces of the dead…
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ante diem iii nonas junias Saecular Games continue (day 3) some time after 296 B.C. — dedication of a Temple of Bellona (and associated rites thereafter)
rogue classicism 