I’m anxiously waiting for Chasing Aphrodite (about the Getty and its acquisitions policy in the past) to show up at a bookstore I frequent (or as an ebook), but until then, I can listen to things on NPR:
Transcript of the audio segment here …
Day: May 17, 2011
Roman Citizenship?
Seen on Twitter:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas iunias
ante diem xvi kalendas iunias
- 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Heradius
- 1510 — death of Botticelli (Birth of Venus, among other Classical subjects)
- 1902 — discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism
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