August 1, 2011

  • Ancient Oracles

    Kathimerini has a nice feature, mostly on Delphi, but a couple of others: Are Greece’s inhabitants heading for better or worse times? Will the family be able to take a holiday this year? Such questions seem to trouble everyone’s minds during this current period of economic and social unrest. Thousands of years ago, the ancient…

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  • Charlotte Higgins appears to be starting a series: Ancient Greece: what can we learn? | The Guardian. What can the Ancient Greeks do for us? | The Guardian

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  • Circumundique July 27-31

    Around the Classical blogosphere the past little while: Roman numerals to build the Colosseum July 30, 2011 frcoulter@yahoo.com explorator 14.15 July 31, 2011 david meadows Bulla Regia … July 31, 2011 Dorothy King Memoria Hannibalis: Constructing Memories of Punic War Violence from the Second Century BCE through the Fifth Century CE July 31, 2011 History…

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  • Some AIA Reviews

    Excerpted from the latest AIA e-Update: At Empire’s Edge: Project Paphlagonia. Regional Survey in North-Central Turkey Edited by Roger Matthews and Claudia Glatz Reviewed by James Newhard Scholars, Travels, Archives: Greek History and Culture Through the British School at Athens. Proceedings of a Conference Held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 6-7 October 2006…

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  • Pantheon Sundial *Redux*

    This one just started to make the rounds last night while I was drifting off … here’s the salient bit from the Telegraph (tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer for being first off the mark with this one … my spiders must still be sleeping): […] Giulio Magli, a historian of ancient architecture from…

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