July 12, 2011
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I saw a brief mention of this a week or so ago with a video that couldn’t be embedded … now we’ve found a very nice Youtube video of the very Roman-themed presentation of the Tour de France teams at the Grand Parc du Puy du Fou. : The Youtube one is over an hour long,…
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Saw this at the Save RHUL Classics facebook page … Boris Johnson writes in the TES: We now have barely a year until we welcome the world to London for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it is testimony to the incredible speed of preparations that we have virtually finished the construction of the athletes’…
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From Adnkronos: Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman sarcophagus in the central Italian Lazio region surrounding Rome. It is the second burial casket discovered during a major dig being coordinated by the University of Michigan. The casket was uncovered in the area of Lazio believed to the site of the ancient Roman city of Gabii,…
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This is one of the reasons I love the summer …. I can happily blog things as they land in my email box. In this case, Martin Conde has alerted us to the fact the the MIBAC has formally presented that statue of Caligula — which was supposed to be an indication of the discovery…
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From time to time I am asked whether I know about universities which offer Classics courses for credit online and usually I have to admit that I’m not up to speed in that regard. In response to a recent query, however, I did ask folks on the Classics list for help and these perhaps will…
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