January 2011
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From a Polish source: Roman legionary quarters have been discovered on the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea by Polish archeologists. A team of Polish archeologists supervised by Radoslaw Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski from the Archeology Institute at the University of Warsaw have discovered a house of a Roman legionary consisting of several spacious rooms in Balaklava in…
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nonae januariae ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of…
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Image via Wikipedia Longtime readers of rogueclassicism may remember a post from a couple of years ago wherein was mentioned the contention that the Capitoline She-Wolf was not as old as we thought (the subject first came to our notice in one of Mary Beard’s posts). At the time, I wondered whether the Chimera of…
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve mentioned these in my Explorator newsletter, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned them here (and I think I missed one in Explorator). Forbes has a very interesting weekly series going on in which Paul Cartledge and James Romm are discussing various aspects of Alexander the Great: Two Great Historians On Alexander…
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Starz is starting to ramp up the hype for its upcoming season of Spartacus … apparently they’re going to have a Facebook game (limited to 10 000 players) and there’s an iPad thingy in the works as well … initial details at: Starz Turns Facebook Into a Roman Empire Arena – WebNewser.
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