April 2, 2010

  • Some items of interest and some iffy items too: The archaeology of Christianity | MSNBC.

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  • Actually, it seems to be a folly from the 18th century: More than £1 million of restoration work will be needed to return a historic monument to its former glory after decades of vandalism has taken its toll. The Temple of Theseus has been virtually concealed within woodland inside the grounds of Hagley Hall, near…

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  • Herculaneum Sewery

    Mary Beard’s latest: The cess-pits of Herculaneum | Times. cf: Blogging the BBC | Blogging Pompeii

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  • A few days ago I was asking readers if they’d approve of a four-column format for rogueclassicism, and that seems to have been almost unanimously declined. So today we introduce one of the reasons I think I need another column: my twitterfeed hashtags. Folks who follow me on twitter know I post a pile of…

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  • Clash of the Accents

    Wow … I’ve been wading through tons of reviews of ‘Clash of the Titans’ and they are generally negative.  I’m probably only going to link to ones with something interesting to say, like this excerpt from one in the Atlantic: In fact, the movie’s accents also deserve their own paragraph, because they are hilarious. The…

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