May 2010
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I’m not a big fan of these sorts of things (outside, maybe, Disneyland vel simm) and their attendant unreality and light pollution, but perhaps someone amongst our readers likes them … from ANSA: This year’s sound-and-light tours at Pompeii promise to be the most spectacular yet, organisers said Wednesday. “There’ll be completely new content and…
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Wow … it seems like every newspaper has someone trotting down to the local ludus to play gladiator. This time its a mostly-touristy piece in the Daily Mail about the Gruppo Storico Romano’s efforts in this regard in their little school “just off the Appian Way”: Rome breaks: The Colosseum of weekends for Alice Beer…
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Richard Stoneman is the guest in a podcastish sort of thing from Australia’s ABC … not sure what the shelf life of it is: Alexander the Great: a life in legend – RN Book Show – 10 May 2010.
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ante diem vi idus maias 214 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Claudius II Gothicus 232 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and Palmatius 238 A.D. — murder of Maximinus Thrax (by one reckoning) 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Epimachus at Alexandria 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphius, Philadelphus, Cyrinus, and Benedicta at Leontini (?)
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Image via Wikipedia The Aspendos Gladiator School is planning to train Turkish oil wrestlers to re-enact the gladiator fights of ancient Rome in the southern Province of Antalya. The school is in the Serik district, which is also home to the ancient theater of Aspendos. The school covers 300 square meters near the site of…
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