May 2011

  • ante diem xiv kalendas junias c. 160 A.D. — martyrdom of Pudentiana 175 A.D. — Commodus departs for Germany 307 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyriaca and companions at Nicomedia 1795 — death of James Boswell, author of Life of Dr. Johnson

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  • I’m sure regular readers of rogueclassicism are familiar with the Ancient World Open Bibliographies Project … we regularly post links to bibliographies which are part of that (see the next post, e.g.). I know you all find such things useful and there are perhaps some of you who are thinking, “Hey, rogueclassicist, I’d love to…

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  • Bibliographies: Papyrology | Ancient World Open Bibliographies.

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  • I know I’m going to be swamped for the next while and probably won’t get a chance to comment on any of the items in Sotheby’s upcoming antiquities auction (June 11), so you might want to peruse the online catalogue for yourself. There are a handful of red figure items, a few heads, a few…

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  • … but this time in Bulgaria … from Novinite: A temple of Ancient Greek goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone has been discovered by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists near the town of Sozopol on the Black Sea. The archaeological team of Prof. Krastina Panayotova found the Ancient Greek temple Tuesday during excavations on the…

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