January 2013
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posted with permission: Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire 525–332 BCE. By Stephen Ruzicka. Oxford Studies in Early Empires. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 311. Hardcover, $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-976662-8. Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, Universiteit van Amsterdam Though ancient Greek historians frequently make it appear that…
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… and we didn’t know it was missing! From a Getty press release (sent directly to me!): The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today plans to voluntarily return a terracotta head to Sicily representing the god Hades and dating to about 400–300 B.C. The Museum acquired the sculpture in 1985. Joint research with colleagues in…
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Kind of surprised this isn’t getting more coverage … via AFP: Italian archaeologists have found brightly coloured fragments of frescoes depicting heroic and erotic scenes inside a corridor of the Colosseum in Rome, along with samples of ancient graffiti. “We have found traces of decorations in blue, red and green,” Rossella Rea, director of the…
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pseudepigraphy (Dictionary.com realia (Merriam Webster) cenobite (Wordsmith) psychopomp (OED) misocapnist (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 2: deus , dei, m => god http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) January 11, 2013 trahere: to drag: verb. Example sentence:Se ex mari traxerunt seque Caesari potenti commiserunt.Translation:They… http://t.co/42iEsXMI — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) January 11, 2013
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ante diem iii idus januarias Carmentalia begins (day 1) — a two-day festival (with a three day break between the days) in honour of the deity Carmenta, who was possibly a goddess of both childbirth and prophecy. 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon (by another reckoning) ?? B.C. — dedication of the Temple…
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