April 2013
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Interesting item over at PaleoBabble … not sure I’ve ever read of alien involvement in this context, but it doesn’t seem unlikely (i.e. that someone has suggested aliens had to do it because the stones are so darned big): Transporting the Trilithon Stones of Baalbek: It’s About Applied Physics, Not Ancient Aliens
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Interesting item from the Independent in the last couple of days … here’s the incipit: Whatever your Classics teacher said to wake up slackers at the back of the class, the Roman diet in ancient times was not always a blow-out of tender larks’ tongues and roasted flamingo followed by a medicinal visit to the…
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Tip o’ the pileus to June Samaras on the Classics list who posted a very interesting link to an article about what the National Archaeological Museum did to protect all that wonderful stuff during World War Two … plenty o’ pix too (there might be some ‘inappropriate’ links to other articles): The buried statues of…
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2013.04.55: Edward McCrorie, Homer. The Iliad. Johns Hopkins new translations from antiquity. 2013.04.54: Nils Rücker, Ausonius an Paulinus von Nola: Textgeschichte und literarische Form der Briefgedichte 21 und 22 des Decimus Magnus Ausonius. Hypomnemeta, Bd 190. 2013.04.53: Jacqueline de Romilly, The Mind of Thucydides (first published 1956). Cornell studies in classical philology. 2013.04.52: Marco Beretta,…
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The latest headlines: Napolitano iterum praesidens Italiae Moderatores Italiae politici praesidentem Giorgio Napolitano appellaverunt, ut ad crisim politicam solvendam candidatus praesidentatus esse dignaretur. Cum ille annuisset, delegatis parlamentariis sexto suffragio tandem contigit, ut praesidentem eligerent. Napolitano, qui primus est praesidens Italiae iterum electus, ex mille septem (1007) votis septingenta duodequadraginta (738) accepit. Praesidens Napolitano, octoginta…
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