August 2009
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Alas, this sort of thing is all too common … from a piece by Harry Mount on student howlers: In 19th-century Oxford, Gladstone may have been studying algebra, hydrostatics and Herodotus but he had some pretty dim contemporaries; like the classicist who’d miscopied a friend’s essay on Greek tragedy. “Who’s this Bophocles you keep referring…
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ante diem v kalendas septembres rites in honour of Sol and Luna near the Circus Maximus 29 B.C. dedication of the ara Victoriae in the Curia 430 A.D. — death of St. Augustine 1797 — birth of Karl Otfried Muller (Classical scholar and archaeologist)
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This just in … the Local seems to be the first off the mark with reports of the news conference mentioned in our previous post on this: Hessian Science Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann on Thursday presented fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Augustus found recently in a stream near Giessen. “The find…
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Interesting item from Radio Bulgaria, which seems to have lost a thing here and there in translation: In the summer the ancient shrine of Perperikon in Southeastern Bulgaria is the source of hot archeological news. During this year’s digs the team of Prof. Nickolay Ovcharov has come across the first epigraphic (written) evidence about Perperikon.…
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ante diem vi kalendas septembres Volturnalia — rites in honour of a divinity associated with fountains/waters 479 B.C. — Greek forces defeat Persian forces under Mardonius at Plataea (according to one reckoning) 413 B.C. — lunar eclipse which caused hesitation amongst Athenian forces under Nikias in Sicily; the subsequent delay ultimately led to their destruction
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