September 2013

  • Extremely interesting item from Discovery News (and Rossella Lorenzi has provided better coverage than the Italian press!) … some excerpts: The skeletonized body of an Etruscan prince, possibly a relative to Tarquinius Priscus, the legendary fifth king of Rome from 616 to 579 B.C., has been brought to light in an extraordinary finding that promises…

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  • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews

    … always seem to be in catchup mode:   2013.09.02:  Roshdi Rashed, Abu Kamil. Algèbre et analyse diophantienne: édition, traduction et commentaire. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 9. 2013.09.03:  Response: Golitsis on Fazzo on Golitsis on Fazzo, Il libro Lambda della Metafisica. Response by Pantelis Golitsis. 2013.09.04:  Giuseppe Mariotta, Adalberto Magnelli, Diodoro Siculo. Biblioteca storica, Libro IV:…

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  • Sacred Well from Portsmouth

    From the News comes another tale of clumsy archaeologists: Buried a few feet under a garden in the centre of Havant, archaeologists stumbled upon a Roman well filled with coins and a bronze ring with a carving of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. Perhaps most intriguing was the discovery of eight dog skeletons…

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  • Nuntii Latini ~ Ephemeris

    @EPHEMERIS Caedes factae sunt in tribus stationibus … http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/nuntius.php?id=889 … militaribus in Iemenia meridionali.

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  • Here’s the blurb: Dr. K. L. Zachoa Zachos Leads this lecture in a fascinating explanation of the Triumph of Augustus on the Actium Monument at Nicopolis.

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