September 2011

  • ante diem xvii kalendas octobres ludi Romani (day 11)  

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  • Interesting item from Science Business: A scanner which combines the convenience of a desktop scanner with the functionality of a powerful laboratory imaging device has been developed at the University of Oxford’s Classics Department, and is now being commercialised by a new company Oxford Multi Spectral Limited which was today spun out by the University’s…

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  • Folks might be interested in this item written by a first-year Columbia student who was all hyped to read the Iliad, then didn’t really like it. But she does recognize what the problem is/was … from the Spectator: Engage with the Iliad

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  • From some sort of press release service called Your Story: The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities, announces the completion of the 2011 field season of the Italian Archaeological expedition at Erimi -Laonin tou Porakou, which took place from August 1st to September 3rd 2011, under the direction of Dr Luca Bombardieri (University…

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  • If you’ve been keeping up with the lead codices thing, you will know that a number of scholars are now of the opinion that a stamp was used to make a number of the designs on different examples. Tom Verenna has just found another use of a stamp, interestingly on a known fake, which matches…

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