June 2010
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Chuck Jones just posted about some recently-posted lectures at the Oriental Institute site, so I poked around and found a couple which might be of interest to readers of rogueclassicism: Sea of Galilee Boat Shelley Wachsmann, Texas A&M University Tracing Roman Luxor Michael Jones, Associate Director, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo Past, Present and Future…
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ante diem iv nonas junias Saecular Games continue (day 2) — the celebration of Rome’s anniversary continues 261 B.C. — death of Antiochus I Soter (I have not been able to confirm this date) 177 A.D. — martyrdom of Blandina, Alexander (and others) at Lyons (a.k.a. the Martyrs of Lyons) 193 A.D. — recently-deposed emperor-for-a-little-while Didius Julianus is murdered
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John Ketseas (thanks!) tracks down another one … this time with a photo of one of the missing legs: more: Συμπληρώνεται το παζλ του μυστηρίου των δίδυμων κούρων | Arxaiologia online The article gives us a couple more interesting details, including that the two kouroi have affinities with something called the “Youth of Tenea” which…
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One of my spiders just dragged this back to my laptop … seems one Theodore May is retracing Alexander’s journey and is documenting his trip in a blog (along with associated tweets) called Backpacking to Babylon. Here’s a bit from the ‘about’ page: Backpacking to Babylon represents several years of dreaming and planning. This project…
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John Ketseas (thanks!) sends in an item from Naftemporiki (in Greek) which appears to be a followup to that Kouroi story from a week or so ago. It appears that further investigation has found a cemetery in the area, and (I think) some of the parts from one of the kouroi (I may be misreading…
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