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Last summer we had some vague reports of Francesco D’Andria’s discovery of the tomb of St Philip in a Hellenistic/Roman necropolis in Hierapolis (Tomb of St Philip?) … today, Zenit has an interview with D’Andria which fleshes out some of the details … we begin our excerpt after some info on Philip’s background: […] ZENIT:…
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Generally when something comes in on the newswire and I’m blogging things, I like to wait to get more than one version of the story. Similarly, when I think I’ve ‘got it’, I tend to wait a bit to give any ideas I may have some time to percolate and, if need be, grow cold…
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One of my ongoing irritants is when an otherwise-respectable news source — such as the BBC — gives its journalistic imprimatur to ‘news’ which is clearly questionable without even thinking too hard or (worse) as a precursor to a documentary which will be appearing later on some television station, such as, well, the BBC. A…
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Image via Wikipedia From a reviewish sort of thing in the New Straits Times of Michael Macrone’s Brush Up Your Classics: An Informative and Entertaining Guide to Understanding the Most Famous Words, Phrases, and Stories of Greek Classics. (inter alia) Most of us are familiar with Aesop and his fables. He lived in sixth-century Greece.…
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As usual, the day I’m away from my laptop some major news manages to accumulate in mailboxes, twitterfeeds, and on Facebook. At this point, the ‘best’ coverage (note the scare quotes) of this story comes from the Telegraph; skipping the intro bit: Nearly 3,000 years after Odysseus returned from his journey, the team from the…
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