February 2011
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This one’s not specifically within our purview, but is the sort of thing we like to monitor (we’ve all heard of sites being found with Google Earth): One Per Cent: Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth | New Scientist. … what I can’t help but wonder, though, is whether the tombaroli types are making…
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Very interesting idea over at Slate … some appropriate excerpts: These conceptions of justice and their attendant myths were originally described at length by prominent philologist Georges Dumezil (1898-1986) in his 1948 book Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. Perhaps you own a copy. Perhaps you have two, so you can keep…
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I can’t really make heads or tails (using Google Translate) of this item from a Greek newspaper. Seems to be a site found at/near Kavouri (Athens or Patras?) with multi-period occupation, ranging from some Hellenistic burials, to a “Classical” temple, to a Byzantine church. Perhaps you’ll have better luck. https://twitter.com/SpartaJournal/status/33341462527606785
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Dr Badian died a few days ago and obituaries still haven’t appeared; the closest seems to be from Harvard’s Faculty page, which seems to have added a line noting his passing: Ernst Badian was Professor of History 1971-82 and John Moors Cabot Professor of History 1982-98. He passed away on February 1, 2011, at the…
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pridie nonas februarias 211 — death of Septimius Severus at York; his son Caracalla assumed the title of pontifex maximus at this time
rogue classicism 