December 2010
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This one was kind of difficult to track down because the coverage in English was so vague. The inital report in Earthtimes went thusly: The Italian government is going to court in Berlin this week to claim an early Greek metal helmet, which it claims was stolen from an archaeological site in Italy in 1993,…
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Haven’t had a post from the Merriam-Webster ‘Ask the Editors’ folks for a while … they just hit my inbox with an explanation of Xmas: If you need a bit more auctoritas, N.S. Gill recently blogged in much the same spirit …
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ante diem iv idus decembres The tribunes of the plebs would enter their office on this day during the Roman Republic. ca 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Carpophorus
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I doubt this brief item from Japan Times will get much attention elsewhere: An excavation team from Kyoto University working in Lebanon has found a lead plate believed to date from between the second and fourth centuries that was apparently used to invoke the spirits of the dead. The 6-cm-wide, 14.7-cm-long plate, discovered near the…
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ante diem v idus decembres 297 A.D. — martyrs of Samosata 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Leocadia 1667 — birth of William Whiston (translator of Josephus, although better known for other reasons) 1717 — birth of Johann Winckelmann
rogue classicism 