August 2009
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ante diem vii kalendas septembres 55 B.C. — Julius Caesar invades Britain, but doesn’t stick around very long 1875 — Birth of John Buchan, 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir and Governor-General of Canada … and author of a decent biography of Augustus
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while too … mostly because of disorganization. In any event, from IC Russia: Ruins of the burnt down palace of the ancient king Mithradates VI Eupator have been discovered in Taman Peninsula, on the place of the old city of Phanagoria. On the site of fire archeologists…
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I’m pretty sure we’ll hear more about this in the coming days, but just in case we don’t … from the Local: Archaeologists in have discovered fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen, the Hessian state science ministry has announced. “There has never been a find…
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I’ve been sitting on this one all day waiting for some English source to pick it up, but none seems to be forthcoming (Today’s Zaman … where are you?) … the Italian press is reporting the discovery of fragments of what appears to be a statue of Apollo which would make a statue some four…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Lucretius in the European Enlightenment A Conference hosted by the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology The University of Edinburgh 3 – 4 September 2009 For more information, see http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/lucretius09/index.html Programme: Thursday 3 September Venue: Old High School, Infirmary Street 9:00 Registration 9:20 Opening: Thomas Ahnert, Hannah Dawson, Michael Lurie…
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