July 2011
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Pop culture takes Cleopatra and Helen of Troy into an entirely new area: Source Source The ad campaign also has a video with some, er, allusions
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Cleopatra is suddenly popping up all over the place again, so it’s probably time for a cranky post to bring folks up to speed thereon. But by way of captatio benevolentiae, however, I’ll mention again my trip to the Royal Ontario Museum last month and one of their ‘iconic pieces’ which (again) I’ve managed to…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Martin Conde for alerting us to this find being reported in Corriere della Sera … here’s the important bit: Colle Oppio delle meraviglie. Un nuovo Apollo emerge dalle viscere del colle. Per Roma è un evento, un nuovo eccezionale ritrovamento a due passi dalla Domus Aurea, dal Colosseo e dall’area…
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https://twitter.com/#!/3pipenet/status/96404315278807040
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ante diem v kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 9) ca 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Nazarius and Celsus
rogue classicism 