March 21, 2012
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The salient bits from a very interesting AFP item: Greece’s Bavarian-born King Otto considered offering Britain cash or antiquities in the 19th century in exchange for marbles removed from the Acropolis, previously unpublished historical files have shown. “There is a document to the foreign ministry, subsequently forwarded to Otto’s minister in London, with instructions on…
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ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts 1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)
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