January 2, 2013
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Another somewhat strange item from Hurriyet: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) has applied to the Culture and Tourism Ministry to carry out the archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Troy in the northwestern province of Çanakkale. Excavations at the site have been carried out by foreign institutions for 150 years. Germany’s Tubingen University has…
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This one popped up the other day and sadly, Hurriyet’s coverage seems to be all there is: A grave stone from the Roman period has been found in the grave of a Muslim judge, in the garden of a mosque in the Kadı village of the Black Sea province of Kastamonu’s Taşköprü district. The gravestone,…
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posted with permission: The Red Flare: Cicero’s On Old Age. Translated by G. B. Cobbold. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012. Pp. xxvi + 92. Paper, $15.00. ISBN: 978-0-86516-782-7. Reviewed by Patrick Hogan, Independent Scholar Cicero’s short dialogues On Old Age and On Friendship once occupied a prominent place in high school and collegiate Latin curricula…
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A somewhat strange bit of synchonicity or something like it has been going on over the past few weeks in regards to assorted politicos/people in power resorting to some sort of ‘consul’ type form of leadership in which two people share power. The example was sent to us via amicus noster John McMahon (tips of…
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T’other day we mentioned Ninidu’s very nice drawings of Greek hairstyles and she has just put up another collection of same: Ancient Greek Hairstyles Vol 2 … here’s the first part in case you’re looking: Ancient Greek Hairstyles
rogue classicism 