March 2011

  • Eric Cline writes in: To all – You may have already received this yesterday, sent from GW Media Relations (since I put you on the list), but the George Washington University Capitol Archaeological Institute announced yesterday that it has launched an initiative to protect Egyptian antiquities from illicit trade around the world. The institute identified…

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  • A while back we had a few posts about the discovery of — and peril to — the remains of the Aqua Traiana by the O’Neills … today they write to tell me they have set up a website on this and some related items: Aqueducthunter.com has eight pages of information on the Santa Fiora…

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  • Emperors of Rome: Nerva

    Adrian Murdoch continues his series with the first of a bunch of really good guys: Nerva: Emperors of Rome

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  • ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts  

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  • ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts 1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)

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