March 30, 2012
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Interesting item up at Bible and Interpretation: Claude Cohen-Matlofsky, Prosopographic Note on Josephus Flavius … some very useful background info …
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Kind of surprised this isn’t getting more attention … it’ll probably show up in weekend papers or something … from UPI: Rome city officials said the costumed gladiators and centurions will no longer be allowed to ask for money around the Colosseum. Davide Bordoni, the city’s councilor for commerce, said a task force will be…
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2012.03.56: Ernst Heitsch, Platon, Größerer Hippias. Platon Werke. Übersetzung und Kommentar, VII 1. 2012.03.55: Dominique Lenfant, Les Perses vus par les Grecs. Lire les sources classiques sur l’empire achéménide. Collection U – Histoire. 2012.03.54: Carl Joachim Classen, Herrscher, Bürger und Erzieher. Beobachtungen zu den Reden des Isokrates. Spudasmata, Bd 133. 2012.03.53: W. R. Paton, Frank…
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Brief item from the Art Media Agency: Turkey is claiming ownership of a sarcophagus discovered at the end of 2010 in Geneva free port during an inventory check conducted by Swiss customs officials. The Journal des Arts stated that since the Swiss law on customs was reinforced in 2009 – following the discovery of 200…
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Plenty of coverage of this one, but most seems to be variations on Nicholas Paphitis’ coverage for AP. Here’s the incipit of the Guardian‘s version: Greek police have recovered an ancient statue worth €12m (£10m) that was illegally excavated and hidden in a goat pen near Athens, and arrested the goat herder and another man…
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