October 2011
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Kind of quiet these past few days: Round-Up: October 29 October 29, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Getty Museum Announces Antiquity in the Twentieth Century. Modern Art and the Classical Vision Symposium October 28, 2011 Freaky Friday: King of the World: Pompey the Great vs James Cameron October 28, 2011 Battle at the Milvian Bridge October 28,…
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From BMCR: 2011.10.58: The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum: Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction. Sozomena: studies in the recovery of ancient texts: edited on behalf of the Herculaneum Society, 1 2011.10.57: Le syntagme nominal en Latin: nouvelles contributions. Actes de l’atelier du centre Alfred Ernout. Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 11 octobre 2008. Kubaba.…
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The Telegraph has an item which opens thusly: The Chinese were baffled by what they described as a “guest star”, which appeared in the night sky in 185AD and lingered for 8 months. Astronomers solve 2,000 year old supernova mystery (Telegraph) Similarly, the Guardian piece on the same subject opens: A puzzle that has baffled…
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This one’s been lurking in my mailbox for a few months, but the recent seismic activity in Turkey reminded me of it. Hopefully all museums are taking the possibility of earthquakes into account when they’re constructing displays …. the following is all in Italian, but it’s not difficult to figure out what’s going on if…
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The Iris folks are putting some of their ‘back content’ up at their new website: An interview with Bettany Hughes
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