October 2011
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One of the more frequent things my spiders drag back to me are references to Pliny the Elder as a source for some strange fact in some newspaper article. Most of the time, they don’t come with a reference, of course, and a lot of times it seems like the press is just dropping the…
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Another one which we hope will make it to the English presses, but this is one I just can’t sit on any longer. Tip o’ the pileus to Martin Conde for alerting us to Clementina Panella et al’s find of what is believed to be the house where Augustus was born. The identification is based…
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Information for this Web Conference at: Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation … versions of some papers in Russian are already there (summaries in assorted languages).
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Speaking of the Met (see next post), one of the things my spiders regularly drag back from the interwebs is a sarcophagus photo of some sort, usually from the Met, but sometimes from the Walters. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with these (since they are usually quite interesting) and so I’ll…
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The Met has added another Roman-related ‘thematic essay’ to its Heilbrun Timeline of Art History: Roman Housing
rogue classicism 