November 13, 2012
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Here’s one from a month or so ago that I was hoping would get a bit more coverage, only to have it get lost in my email box … from the Austrian Independent: Builders digging up land for a bypass at Schützen am Gebirge in Burgenland have unearthed a child’s grave dating back to Roman…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture Bar Ilan University/Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 10-11 June, 2013. Ancient Greece and Rome are rarely depicted objectively in modern popular culture. Sometimes these ancient cultures, epitomised by smooth white marble and classical beauty, are…
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The UPenn Museum is always posting a pile of raw footage and the latest comprises various sites in Athens from 1939:
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posted with permission: Amber and the Ancient World. By Faya Causey. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. Pp. 144. Hardcover, $25.00. ISBN 978-1-60606-082-7. Reviewed by Rachael Goldman, Graduate Center, City University of New York Faya Causey has studied the subject of ancient amber for a long time. Ever since her 1985 Berkeley dissertation, “Studies on…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Phoebe Acheson for alerting us that a number of podcasts had been added to UCincinnati’s lineup, including a two-part interview with Josephus (!) … I think there are some new Pompeii ones as well: UC Classics Ancient World Podcasts
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