July 2011
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ante diem vii kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 7) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 9) 110 A.D. — martyrdom of Hyacinthus 1893 — birth of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)
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Interesting item in the Bucks Herald: AN AMATEUR archaeologist from Aylesbury has been given a national award after uncovering a coin press which may have been used to make counterfeit currency in Roman times. Tom Clarke, who has been metal detecting for more than 40 years, found a number of blank bronze coins and a…
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Folks might be interested in this one: Socrates Wouldn’t Trust the Web. Should We Trust Him? | Learning From The Past | Big Think.
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ante diem viii kalendas sextilias Furrinalia — a festival in honour of an obscure Roman deity named Furrina, who appears to have been assiociated with a grove and/or spring ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 6) 44 A.D. — marytrdom of James the Greater 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 8) 306 A.D. —…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Laval Hunsucker on the Classics list for this one … a potentially useful bit of technology for reading/photographing inscriptions (although I would have liked to see what it did with the wooden example at the beginning): RTI has been around for a while (there are actual tutorials at Youtube on…
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