April 2011
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pridie nonas apriles ludi Megalesia (day 1 … associated with the next item, obviously) 204 B.C. — the image and cult of the Mater Magna (a.k.a. Cybele) is brought to Rome during the conflict with Hannibal on the advice of the Sybilline books 37 A.D. — the ashes of Tiberius are placed in the Mausoleum…
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After our two previous posts (here and here) and all the attention from assorted bibliobloggers, I thought the Lead Codices thing would slowly fade away, with subsequent news reports adding nothing new. Strangely enough, however, we continue to get ‘new’ information on this thing and it gets more and more bizarre and causes one to…
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An interesting item that’s been buried in my mailbox this week: A large number of animal sacrifices found on an archaeological dig have shown Carshalton was likely to have been a key spiritual site in the Iron Age. Ancient Roman remains of buried babies and animals were unearthed last summer at an archaeological dig on…
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Frank and Ernest
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Bibliography: The Ancient Novel | Ancient World Open Bibliographies.
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