April 3, 2012
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Pop Classics: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum dir. Richard Lester, 1966.
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History of the Ancient World: Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria.
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History of the Ancient World: “Rulers Ruled By Women”: An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Ancient Sparta.
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The Telegraph ponders combining various traits in former prime ministers to create the perfect one … inter alia, ecce: Harold Macmillan’s unflappability. It is essential for a prime minister to show grace under pressure and no one demonstrated this quality better than Macmillan, also known as “Supermac”. During the battle of the Somme he was…
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Martin Conde has a pdf of an item in today’s Il Messaggero (which doesn’t seem to be online) commenting on the discovery/work on a huge mosaic found deep in the bowels of the Oppian Hill which depicts (maybe) five ‘mysterious muses’ … it seems likely this is related to last summer’s find (also mentioned by…
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