Greece
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From Adnkronos comes this item on the discovery of a Mycenean necropolis with a pile of pottery and bronze items near a sixth century temple at the ancient site of Rhypes: Una necropoli micenea utilizzata a partire dal XV secolo a.C. circa e’ stata scoperta da un gruppo di archeologi dell’Universita’ di Udine nei pressi…
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This just-emerging story seems to be making the rounds of assorted European papers … the only English version, however, is in the Hong Kong Standard: Greece is holding talks with the British Museum on the return of fragments from the Parthenon Marbles, the director of the Acropolis Museum in Athens said today. Demetrios Pantermalis said…
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From the blurb at the Library of Economics and Liberty: Josiah Ober of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of ancient Greece, particularly Athens. Ober notes that the standard view of ancient Greece is that it was very poor. Drawing on various kinds of evidence, Ober argues that Greece was…
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Latest discovery coming as a result of metro construction in Thessaloniki is a Roman road on top of the original Greek one … here’s the salient bits from AP via NPR: Archaeologists in Greece’s second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel…
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There have been plenty of non-Classicist commentators dropping the word ‘tragedy’ and making all sorts of facile comparisons to the ancient world in regards to the ongoing debt crisis in Greece … finally, a Classicist — Oxford’s Armand D’Angour — wades in with some useful comparanda. From the BBC: What advice would the ancient Greeks…
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