September 6, 2011
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Turkey seems to be encouraged by its success getting the Pergamon Museum to return the Hattusas Sphinx (our initial coverage is here; I don’t think we presented any of the ‘success coverage‘ last summer) … now it’s going after something in the Victoria and Albert … from the Independent: Turkey is demanding the return of…
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Interesting item from the Dominion Post … I was wondering just the other day what had happened to my fellow McMaster grad Matthew Trundle: Two thousand years after Romans flocked to big arenas to watch the gladiators, Kiwis are heading to stadiums in the hope our gladiators, the All Blacks, will win us a world…
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The Spring 2011 issue is online: Teaching Classical Languages
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Some items from the Classical blogosphere that caught my eye: Sextus Pompeius: Rebellious Pirate or Imitative Son? September 5, 2011 History of the Ancient World Rude Eyes from Gubbio in the USA September 5, 2011 Paul Barford Round-Up: September 5 September 5, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) On This Day in Ancient History – Time for the…
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ante diem viii idus septembres ludi Romani (day 2) 81 A.D. — martyrdom of Onesiphorus 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Faustus in Alexandria 1956 — death of Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B (the ancient script used by the Myceneans)
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