January 2010
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Brief item on the amphitheatre at Caserta and its links to Spartacus: Anfiteatro secondo solo al Colosseo – Corriere del Mezzogiorno.
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Interesting item from Il Mattino … essentially detailing the revelation (if that’s the right word; this doesn’t seem to be a ‘discovery’, but rather a recognition that there was archaeotouristy value in a site which apparently was a theatre built by Nero (in Naples): Vicolo Cinque Santi, cuore del centro storico: bassi, immondizia, degrado. E…
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Sue Day sent this one in … Mary Beard is going to be on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Disks tomorrow (Sunday) and repeated the following Friday … click the link for more details. BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Desert Island Discs, Mary Beard.
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A TACTIC borrowed from an episode in Ancient Greek mythology helped police take on and win a battle against a plague of modern Britain. Taking inspiration from the Trojan Horse that helped the Greeks enter Troy after a decade of deadlock, officers in the Welsh capital came up with a disguise that allowed them to…
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Anyone recognize the source of this one? In Ancient Egypt, the tables were turned and it was the redheads who were sacrificed, which, let’s face it, is hardly a good start, but does leave room for improvement. The Ancient Greeks didn’t quite consider it a death sentence, but Aristotle considered them to be “emotionally un-house…
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