February 15, 2012
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From AllAfrica … hopefully we’ll get some more details: A chance discovery of around 100 Roman graves was made recently near el Kantra – located in the island of Djerba’s southern region. Employees working for the STEG (the Tunisian Society of Electricity and Gas) as well as employees from the Ministry of Equipment and Housing…
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Last weekend we posted a link to Caroline Lawrence’s post about her visit to the Wellcome Collection. Serendipitously, the Wellcome Collection’s own blog also has an item of interest under the title Ancient objects shed light on how people once understood their bodies. It includes this photo from the collection: … and we are told…
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It’s amazing how finally finishing report cards allows the rogueclassicist side of my brain to start working again. As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I realized that the ‘last page’ as it were, of our pre-wordpress version of this venture actually makes a reference to Bourgas. Specifically, an item entitled Remains of…
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ante diem xv kalendas martias Parentalia (Day 3) — the festival for appeasing the dead continues Lupercalia 44 B.C. — Julius Caesar is offered — and declines — the title of rex and the diadem to go with it 1515 — death of Aldus Manutius
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