August 24, 2012
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LiveScience’s Owen Jarus has put a good one out there … from the latest volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it’s a recently-translated poem all about Nero and Poppaea Sabina, and the latter’s ‘deification’ … here are some excerpts from Jarus’ piece: A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of…
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If you’re on twitter, you’ll want to follow @Elder_Pliny beginning at 8 a.m. MST to get a minute by minute account, brought to you by the Denver Museum of Nature …
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We’ll start with a video from the BBC and with a focus on what the people died from: … and then remind folks of a Scientific American blog on the subject (which includes another one of our fave videos): Geology Scene Investigation: Death by Volcanic Fire … and now that you’re interested (as if you…
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ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of the underworld…
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Illicit Cultural Property: The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires 2 Antiquities.
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