December 10, 2011
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… but this time, it isn’t Thessaloniki … From an AP report via the Miami Herald: Greek police say they have arrested two men believed to have illegally unearthed a 2,600-year-old bronze helmet. A police statement Friday said the 6th century B.C. ancient helmet was in fine condition. The two Greek suspects were arrested on…
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The Guardian reviews a collection of short stories in the Steampunk genre and includes this tantalizing summary of one of them: MT Anderson’s “The Oracle Engine”, multilayered with irony and full of sly jokes, takes us, via Plutarch, to ancient Rome. A vengeful Artificer builds a prototype computer (out of metal, probably brass) and rigs…
rogue classicism 