February 28, 2013
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School is just starting so here’s the quickie, unchecked/unresearched version (you always have to double check with Carandini, I think) … from the Gazzetta del Sud: The temple built by Romulus to celebrate the hand of Jupiter giving Roman troops their unstoppable force has been found at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Italian archaeologists…
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Last week we mentioned how John Franklin et al had a project to recreate the ancient Greek kithara (Recreating the Kithara) … a few days later, he gave a talk on the process:
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My spiders brought this one back last week … haven’t had a chance to check it out. Here’s a bit of a blurb: This course offers an introduction to all the main features of ancient Greek religion. It introduces students to its principal gods and heroes, and details how to contact them and gain their…
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This series is actually OUP hyping a new translation of the Iliad, but there’s a pretty good intro to Homer etc in these segments. The official intro: Barbara Graziosi and Anthony Verity introduce their Oxford World’s Classics edition of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’. In this first part, they discuss the text itself.
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A short video from the UPenn Museum folks … here’s the tease: Highway construction in Lod, Israel in 1996 accidently unearthed a large and well-preserved Roman mosaic that probably once decorated a large audience room. The mosaic dates to circa 300 CE and features a kind of arena of ferocious animals, including a lion and…
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