November 2012

  • DEADLINE EXTENDED! Deadline for abstract submission extended to Friday, December 14, 2012! Call for Papers: (Re)Constructing the Past: Abandonment and Renewal in the Ancient World Graduate Student Conference, February 22-23, 2013 Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan Keynote Speaker: Professor Karl Galinsky, University of Texas at Austin Modern conceptions of the ancient world are…

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  • Nuntii Latini (YLE)

    Separatistae in Catalonia victores In comitiis Cataloniae partes politicae, quae ad independentiam spectant, maiorem partem delegatorum in parlamentum regionale acceperunt. Nihilo minus separatio Cataloniae non est probabilis, ut factiones principales iam nuntiaverunt. Inopia quaestus et depressio oeconomica usque gravescens voluntatem separationis apud Catalanos auxerunt. Catalonia ex partibus Hispaniae oeconomiam habet validissimam, sed multi Catalani censent…

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  •  Lendon, J. E., Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins. H-War, H-Net Reviews. November, 2012. Reviewed by Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland) Published on H-War (November, 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35487 J. E. Lendon’s engaging new history of the Ten Years or Archidamian War, that is, the first phase of what we have…

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  • From the Art Newspaper: Few people have ever visited the long network of underground tunnels under the public baths of Caracalla, which date back to the third century AD and are considered by many archaeologists to be the grandest public baths in Rome. This underground network, which is due to be reopened in December, is…

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  • The finds are from various periods, but it sounds like this find might lead to more within our purview. From Novinite: A necropolis with over 100 burials has been unearthed during archaeological excavations near the village of Marten in northern Bulgaria. The discovery was made by the archaeologist from the Archaeology Museum in the Danube…

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