June 25, 2011
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The Smarthistory folks do a very interesting job with this one, even if they do zip over the story a bit too quickly: David’s The Intervention of the Sabine Women | Smarthistory.
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I was wondering if this was going to be brought up, given the current situation in Greece … from the Guardian: David Cameron has rejected a call for Britain to “put right a wrong” that dates back just short of two centuries by returning the Parthenon marbles to Greece. Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP…
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Nice feature in Fortean Times … here’s the incipit: Alexander of Abonoteichus may not be one of the most famous figures of the second century AD… in fact, with a mouthful of a name like that it’s surprising anyone remembers him at all. But a Roman emperor threw lions into the Danube on the advice…
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From the Hollywood Reporter comes word of some Classical connections in an upcoming movie called Snow White and the Huntsman … inter alia: In the script, the dwarfs are named after Roman emperors with McShane playing the group’s leader, Caesar, Jones as a timid dwarf named Claudius and Izzard playing Tiberius, described as the biggest…
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Something clearly lost in translation in this one from Al-Masry Al-Youm: A huge palace from the Roman ages (31-395 BC) has been discovered in the New Valley Governorate in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Antiquities announced Monday. An US expedition in the Amhada region, 500km south of Cairo, unearthed a palace belonging to a person…
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