June 2013
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Dozens of Antiquities lack dated pre-1970 provenance at Christie’s and Sotheby’s June 2013 sales via Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues
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The tease: In the fourth interview recorded during this year’s Classical Association CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni talks with Dr Amy Smith, a member of the Classics Department at the University of Reading which hosted this year’s meeting. This interview and the one with Dr Sonya Nevin that follows were recorded on the premises of the Ure…
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Hot on the heels of the Odysseus in America post comes this item from Anesthesiology News: Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus’ son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die of massive hemorrhage secondary to an acute laceration of the calcaneal tendon, indicating the likely presence of an inherited coagulopathy such as hemophilia…
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We’ve had this nuttiness before and once again, it comes from the Greek Reporter: Dr. Enrico Mattievich, a retired Professor of Physics from the UFRJ, Brazil, suggested in 2011 that Odysseus’s journey to the Underworld took actually place in South America. The river Acheron was the Amazon, after a long voyage upstream Odysseus met the…
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Assorted versions of this kicking around … here’s the BBC‘s version: Evidence of the earliest winemaking in France has been described – and indicates an Italian origin. Shaped vessels called amphoras, known to have been imported from the Etruscan people of Italy around 500 BC, have shown chemical evidence of wine. A wine press identified…
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