January 2013
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PhDiva: Sarah Bond: The Tale of the Leather Asses: Numa Pompilius and Leather Coinage.
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This was all the news on Twitter yesterday … here it is in video form from Rome Reports: … now we have to get him following people other than himself …
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From Hurriyet: Archaeologists digging up the past in the southern province of Isparta are slowly revealing an ancient city whose well-developed sense of urban planning seems to have served as a model for subsequent conurbations. “The ancient city [of Pisidia Antiocheia] is positioned on two main rectangular streets that cut each other vertically, which is…
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Haven’t had one of these in ages … from the BBC: The face of a wealthy Roman citizen who lived in south Wales has been revealed nearly two millennia after he died. Using the latest technology, experts have produced a portrait of the man whose skeleton was uncovered 18 years ago in Caerleon, near Newport.…
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posted with permission: Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy. By Esther Eidinow. Ancients and Moderns. London: I. B. Tauris; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 213. Paper, £12.99/$24.95. ISBN 978-1-84511-843-3 (Tauris); 978-0-19-538079-8 (Oxford). Reviewed by Vasiliki Giannopoulou, University of Oxford This is an insightful study examining μοῖρα (fate), τύχη (luck,…
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