July 11, 2011
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Back when we first mentioned the threat to Classics at Royal Holloway, we noted that no one had set up an online petition yet. We now note that there is one … please sign it (it has 345 signatures as of this writing; usually we can get more than a thousand for this sort of…
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This one’s interesting … from a University of Gutenberg press release: Olympia, site of the famous Temple of Zeus and original venue of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, was presumably destroyed by repeated tsunamis that travelled considerable distances inland, and not by earthquake and river floods as has been assumed to date. Evidence in…
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Adrian Murdoch’s podcasts have continued while I was on my ‘grand tour’ … the one I missed last week were on all those guys doing the “I’m the emperor” thing in 238: #27 Emperors of AD238: Emperors of Rome … and today we have the youth they actually settled on, Gordian III: #28 Gordian III:…
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ante diem v idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 6) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo 1896 — death of Ernst Curtius (historian/archaeologist) 1941 — death of Sir Arthur Evans…
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