April 2009
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ivo Volt: The Argyle Sweater
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Somewhat strange (to me) item apparently circulating with not enough detail on the AP Wire … from PR Inside: Police in northern Greece say they have seized six sections of ancient marble columns from a junkyard and arrested the owners for antiquity smuggling. The sections of the 2,300-year-old columns are up to 13 feet (4…
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More news on the benefits the Getty is receiving from its agreement with Italy … the incipit of a brief item from Reuters: California’s Getty Museum, one of the world’s richest art institutions, has received the first two artworks from Italy under a deal that settled a 2006 dispute over looted antiquities. Getty officials said…
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ante diem xviii kalendas maias ludi Cereri continue (day 3) — games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. 69 A.D. — first battle at Bedriacum; the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius eventually would defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho 73 A.D. — mass suicide at Masada (?) 195 A.D.…
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FYROM … er … Macedonia … er … somewhere it has no business being. Or at least that’s the impression we’re being given from a couple of sources. First, MINA came out with this tantalizingly brief brief: MiNa was not able to verify this information with the Macedonian Government nor with archeologists in Skopje, and…
rogue classicism 