February 2012
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Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for alerting us to this item from Athens News: Four previously unknown shipwrecks have been discovered some 30 kilometers off the Bay of Irakleio, Crete, in recent underwater exploration conducted by the ephorate of underwater antiquities. The new finds comprise two Roman era shipwrecks, one containing 1st and…
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Dr. Antonis Kotsonas has posted a link on AegeaNet to what is apparently a list of the items stolen from Olympia. It’s here … and you’ll see a couple of Word document icons amongst all the Greek. Click on the second one for a rather large Word document which includes photos.
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Greek Reporter has an item which, inter alia, suggests the crime was ‘made to order’: People investigating the case of the armed robbery at the Museum of Ancient Olympia say that the 65 stolen artifacts have possibly crossed Greek borders. According to police sources, the case of Ancient Olympia was a made-to-order theft, because the…
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Gregory Nagy, The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording via The Center for Hellenic Studies.
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2012.02.37: Louise Calder, Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek Attitudes to Animals, 600-300 BC. Studies in classical archaeology, 5. 2012.02.36: Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Gender-Inszenierungen in der antiken Literatur. 2012.02.35: Michael Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy. Ancients and Moderns. 2012.02.34: Christine Heusch, Die Macht der memoria: Die‚…
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