September 2, 2011
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Usually we only think of Pompeii or the pyramids when we think of ancient graffiti. Nice to read about similar things in Israel in this interesting item from Media Line: It’s hot. A haze of heat hangs flat over a copse of hundred-year-old oaks and dry scrubland of the Judean foothills where people may have…
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I tried posting this the other day, but it seems to have vanished in the ether … the incipit of an item from Chicago Now: Baseball has always been “America’s game.” Although football has begun challenging for the title. Because our democracy has its roots in ancient Greece, sports fans might wonder what the Greeks…
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Image by Draco sub Rosa via Flickr A very interesting discussion of the development and use of the Ionic Capital through the Renaissance and down to more recent times: CLASSICAL COMMENTS: THE SCAMOZZI IONIC CAPITAL | Classicist Blog.
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I’m only vaguely familiar with the concept of flash fiction, but it seems to be what I once knew as postcard fiction, but in an internet context. In any event, thanks to the good folks at BoingBoing, I learned of a flash fiction thread/series by one Prufrock451 at Reddit which was spawned from the question:…
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Here’s what folks were writing about yesterday: Round-Up: September 1 September 1, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Roma – Gli Esploratori della citta` sepolta – Il Colosseo piu` segreto. IL TEMPO (31/08/2011), pp. 1, 24, 25 [PDF pp. 1-3]. September 1, 2011 Martin G. Conde [hope to blog on this myself …] Roma – Il Segrato di…
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