October 5, 2011
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The Classics Confidential folks interview Katie Billotte:
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The incipit of a piece in the Daily Mail: Boris Johnson risked more confrontation with David Cameron yesterday by saying he would be prepared to serve as prime minister. Asked where he would be in 2020, he compared himself to an ancient Roman consul who freely gave up his dictatorial powers: ‘I will have returned…
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From the Daily Echo: A GROUND-BREAKING archaeological search for an ancient Roman road starts in Purbeck next week. Experts will excavate part of the straight footpath running through Sandford Heath, known locally as the Roman Road. Historians hope this dig will, once and for all, answer whether the thoroughfare visible today was constructed over an…
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Some interesting stuff yesterday: Herculaneum Society AGM Meeting October 4, 2011 j-t-berry@hotmail.co.uk (Jo Berry) 10/3/11 PHD comic: ‘P is for Produce’ October 4, 2011 Greek responses to Symes material on the London market October 4, 2011 David Gill The Diolkos Petition October 4, 2011 dpettegrew South Italian Pots in Australia October 4, 2011 David Gill…
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iii nonas octobres mundus patet – the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of the underworld were considered to be opened and the manes (spirits of…
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