October 24, 2012
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The Italian press is just beginning to percolate with the news of the discovery of five intact rooms of a structure, with frescoes on the walls, which had been hidden behind a walled up door in Rione Terra. It seems to date from the first century B.C. … so far the photos aren’t that enlightening…
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In case you haven’t seen the notices, there will be a Pipiatio Latina tomorrow beginning at 4 p.m. Eastern time … further details at the AIRC page: Pipiatio Latina: Agere Latine #LTNL
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posted with permission: The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub. Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. viii + 319. Hardcover, £90.00/$149.95. ISBN 978-0-470-65557-3. Reviewed by Greg Woolf, University of St. Andrews How could one study the Roman empire “out of context”? The trick is…
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The things that make it into newspapers in Sri Lanka: Mimesis – what two Greek philosophers felt? … maybe there is a use for those notes you took in philosophy class twenty or thirty years ago …
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Smithsonian Magazine has the latest: The Greeks took their beauty seriously. It was a beauty contest, after all, that touched off the Trojan War. Athena, Hera and Aphrodite vied for Paris to decide who was the fairest among them. After Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful mortal woman, Paris carried off Helen…
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