July 2009
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There’s a lengthy Global Arab Network (and other sites) story kicking around about the dig at Tabusiris Magna … nothing really new other than we get the name of the site director: Dr Said Altalhawy. Perhaps more importantly, we also get (in the concluding paragraph) this: The site is now closed for the summer, and…
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From Balkan Travellers: The remains of an ancient Roman theatre, which are partly buried underneath a building, will be unearthed in Turkey’s capital to become a spot for cultural events. As a result of the initiative of Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, a building constructed 15 years ago atop the remains of the Roman…
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Seen on the Classicists list: 21-22 September 2009 the Ure Museum, Department of Classics, University of Reading, will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘The gods of SMALL THINGS’. This two-day interdisciplinary conference, which seeks to investigate the cumulative value of non- prestige ex votos, will include a public lecture by Jean-Marc Luce (Toulouse), "From…
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ante diem v kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 9) ca 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Nazarius and Celsus
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Folks might want to check out an interesting post over at the Toynbee Convector, where David Derrick has glossed a collection of essays (The Legacy of Greece) as a three act ‘tragedy’: From synoikismos to dissolution
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