September 2011
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The incipit of an item at Numismaster: One of the most sought-after of all coins was included in the September Long Beach sale of Heritage Auction Galleries: an EID MAR (“Ides of March”) denarius struck by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar. In a 2008 vote of leading numismatists to find the 100 Greatest…
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Item from Channel Four, largely on the efforts of the Classics for All folks, but also delving into Madeline Miller’s recent gloss on Homer: I have a confession. I never studied Latin, let alone ancient Greek. And I’ve never read the Iliad. That probably puts me in the majority. However, I now want to. That’s…
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This time, from the Minnesota Institute of Arts … in a press release therefrom we read: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) has agreed to transfer a 5th century B.C. Greek volute krater acquired by the MIA in 1983 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for delivery to Italy. The…
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Hot on the heels of Tom Verenna’s latest ‘stamp’ identification, Steve Caruso has revealed some skullduggery with the metallurgical reports which are being used to prop up claims of genuinity (if that isn’t a word, it should be) of those lead codices: Jordan Codices: More About the Altered Metallurgical Report | The Aramaic Blog
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Marking the anniversary of Loebs with a disquisition on Socrates in Xenophon and Aristophanes: The Other Socrates – The Barnes & Noble Review.
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