May 2012
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Nice little feature on Duke’s papyri collections and the current conservation projects attached thereto: In the Lab: Housing Papyri and Early Manuscripts (The Devil’s Tale)
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I’ll admit I’m not a major baseball fan, but this one seems worthy of some rc love. This story actually broke last week but I searched in vain for a photo … here’s the incipit of a piece in the Tampa Bay Times: The scary-looking, metal, medieval-style helmet mask that sits in Carlos Peña’s locker…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright who sent this in earlier this week, but I only found it while doing my Explorator newsletter this a.m.. The incipit of an item from C21 (whatever that is): Broadcasters in Italy, Finland, Brazil and Slovakia are onboard a new scripted series based on Homer’s The Odyssey. Odysseus…
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A tantalizing incipit from a piece in the Times of India: A team of archeologists have excavated Roman silver coins at Anuvanahalli in Tarikere taluk in Chikmagalur. It is now believed that the Romans might have tried to trade in medicinal plants which were found abundantly in the region given that the site looks like…
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Speaking of courts, we probably should catch up with that retrial of Socrates we mentioned as being about to happen earlier this week (Socrates Going on Trial Again). The retrial received rather scant media coverage and, as usually happens in these things, Socrates was found not guilty. Here’s the incipit of the AFP coverage: Judges…
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