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As folks have probably already seen, the interwebs are burning up with the discovery — apparently — of a cup used by Pericles. eKathimerini’s coverage seems to embrace all the coverage making it to the English press: A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper’s…
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From Greek Reporter (I’m not sure this is news; I could have sworn we’d heard about this before): Local residents of Thessaloniki in northern Greece are outraged by a decision to build an apartment block on top of a recently discovered ancient Greek temple in the heart of the city. The temple of goddess Aphrodite,…
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Brief item from Greek Reporter: A statue, believed to be the ancient Greek goddess Demeter, has been unearthed at an illegal excavation in Simav, western Turkey. The statue, weighing in at 610kg and standing 2.8 meters tall, was discovered by two Turks, Ramazan C. And Ismail G, 26 and 62 years old respectively, who are…
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An interesting citation project discovers, inter alia, the work of a hitherto unknown metrologist. Froma CORDIS press release: A research conducted at the Department of Classical and Romanic Philology has led to the creation of a pioneering database of bibliographical citations on authors of Ancient Greece and Rome, whose works, in many cases, have not…
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I’m somewhat skeptical about this one as it is being reported … from the Greek Reporter: A submerged underwater archaeological site with extensive sunken architectural remains was found by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities team at a depth of 200 to 600 m. off the Alikanas beach on northeast Zakynthos, the Ionian Sea Island, as…
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