May 2010
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s another one from the Toledo Museum of Art … here’s the official description of an interesting talk on the fanaticism of fans ar Roman chariot races: Dr. Sinclair Bell, Professor in the Department of Art History at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, presented his program “Fans and Fame in the Roman…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: the Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World British Museum, 16 – 17 December 2010 The British Museum’s Department of Greece and Rome is pleased to announce its 2010…
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For reasons unknown I seem to have lost my rss feed to the LoOG in the past weeks and in the non-process missed out on mentioning a number of Rufus’ posts … this link will take you to the page of his stuff: Rufus F. | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. … I seem to…
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I think this is something many folks suspected … Military warmongers took over the Roman Empire in the third century. The senate, the administrative elite of the Roman empire watched from the sidelines. Dutch researcher Inge Mennen investigated the balance of power in Imperium Romanum during the ‘crisis of the third century‘. Conclusion: senators lost…
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Not quite enough details in this one for my liking: Idleb Antiquities Department has unearthed a Roman-era cemetery dating back to the 3rd century AD in al-Massasia Valley, north of Darkoush town, in the northern Province of Idleb (Northern Syria). Head of the Syrian Archaeological Excavations Department Musstafa Kaddour said that the cemetery consists of…
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