May 2010

  • Bulgarian police have captured a number of invaluable archaeological finds in a police operation in Sofia and the eastern town of Stara Zagora. The operation was carried out by the Unit for Combating the Traffic of Cultural and Historical Items of the main directorate for fighting organized crime (GDBOP), the police directorate in the city…

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  • A bit from the end: Plato’s Socrates accepts with Protagoras the relativity of sense perception – but sense perception that yields appearances, only; he will not, however, affirm a universal relativism that does no justice to the totality of the knowing process; one that is self-contradictory and unable to account for universal truth, which some…

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  • Nice feature on our favourite Cambridge don: Mary Beard: A classicist in a class of her own | The Observer.

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  • In search of Muziris | The Hindu. … we had a post just a couple of weeks ago on Muziris, with links to our previous coverage (and much else) …

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  • John O’Neill again, in a different forum: American Thinker: The Fate of the Library of Alexandria. … we’ll direct our readers to our previous comments on a similar feature by Mr. O’Neill …

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