August 2009
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Seen on various lists: Call For Papers on behalf of Robert Montgomerie, Managing Editor of Sparta: Journal of Ancient and Greek History, (ISSN 1751-0007) Nottingham, UK. For the next issue of Σparta we would like to call for papers directed at ideas around the archaeology of Spartan religiosity and Spartan Law. Papers on architecture, temples,…
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ante diem viii kalendas septembres Opiconsivia — rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus 79 A.D. — death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the…
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We can add the author of the recently-released The Last Ember to the list … from the Courier-Journal: New York author Daniel Levin has garnered rave reviews for his debut suspense novel, “The Last Ember” — a fictional thriller set in Rome and the Middle East. Advertisement Jonathan Marcus, the book’s protagonist, and Dr. Emili…
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Seen on various lists (from the Daily Hampshire Gazette): Elizabeth Lyding Will, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, died peacefully on Aug. 19, 2009, at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst. She was 85 years old. Considered the world authority on the ancient Roman shipping containers called amphoras,…
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Sigh of relief after reading this item from Bloomberg: A significant archaeological site in Greece escaped damage during weekend fires and is deemed safe, a Culture Ministry spokesman said. The site at Ramnounta, which is believed to be one of Greece’s first municipalities from antiquity, isn’t threatened by the fires, the country’s worst since 2007,…
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