April 24, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia A very interesting series of items from Jonah Goldberg popped up at the National Review Online this week. First: A slew of readers are outraged, perplexed, confabulated and gobsmacked by the claim made below by another reader that there’s no Latin word for “volcano.” I agree it is bizarre. After all you…
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s the incipit … not sure if I blogged this already: Many historians agree that the world’s most well-known epic poet, Homer, lived in the Aegean city of İzmir, but several mayors are eager to have their towns recognized as his home. The ancient Greek poet Homer, traditionally considered the author of…
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The skinny: it dates from the second half of the first century A.D. (based on it apparently demonstrating a transition from cremation to inhumation) and most of the occupants seem to be low-status males (skeletal remains show evidence of a life of ‘hard labour’) … Resti di una necropoli di epoca romana sono stati scoperti…
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Not sure I’ve ever had something from the Sun, so: A PENSIONER who dresses as a Roman gladiator and calls himself Maximus Decimus Meridius has admitted his obsession may be “over the top”. Tony Barnatt Jose, a retired lorry driver, has devoted his life to the ancient empire — turning his house into a shrine…
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This one seems to be getting an awful lot of attention in the Italian press for some reason … a 2nd or 1st century B.C. amphora find from the waters near Bari. Un’anfora romana risalente al periodo compreso fra il II ed il I secolo a.C. è stata scoperta su un fondale sabbioso non molto…
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