September 20, 2012
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Seen on various lists: In/fertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Conference to be held in the University of Cambridge, July 15th-16th 2013 Call for papers (deadline 30 September 2012) Concerns about fertility and children have been (and still are) common reasons for visiting, and more generally engaging with, the sacred…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Sally Winchester on the Classics list for alerting us to this one at LiveScience (which my spiders didn’t catch because it’s categorized as ‘strange news’ for some reason) … not a lot new in this one really, so here’s a bit from the end: […] In 2010 Schwartz and his…
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From Kathimerini: Alternate Culture Minister Costas Tzavaras on Wednesday announced the creation of a special advisory committee that is to coordinate a strategic national effort to secure the return of the Parthenon Marbles, a longstanding demand of the Greek authorities. Speaking a few weeks after the British Museum denied reports that it was considering returning…
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ante diem ix kalendas octobres rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty! 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?) 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning) 63 B.C. — birth of…
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PaleoJudaica.com: A Coptic gospel that mentions Jesus’ wife?.
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