IN THE NEWS … 1,600-year-old Roman law book fragment reveals how taxes and public duties worked | Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery statue unearthed at Sardis archaeological dig Submerged Etruscan Harbor off Rome May Be the Earliest Known Port Linked to a Temple | Arkeonews Replica of ancient Aphrodite bust unveiled in Paralimni-Dherynia | Cyprus…

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55 B.C. — Julius Caesar invades Britain, but doesn’t stick around very long 1875 — Birth of John Buchan, 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir and Governor-General of Canada … and author of a decent biography of Augustus

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IN THE NEWS … Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Made From Meteorite Iron. Then They Stopped Expert pieces together puzzle from fragments of 1,600-year-old Roman text | EurekAlert! Ancient Greek Stele Found in Syria Reveals Tale of Soldier and His Brother – GreekReporter.com 3,400-Year-Old Hittite Building Reveals Evidence of Mysterious Sacrifices – GreekReporter.com Ancient…

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Opiconsivia — rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus 79 A.D. — death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the Nicene Creed, the ‘Twenty Canons’, etc..

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Susanna Phillippo, Newcastle University and Sally Waite, Newcastle University Homer’s Odyssey, with its fabulous monsters and intense tale of human endurance, was a natural candidate for Christopher Nolan’s latest Hollywood blockbuster. But amid all the fantasy and heroic human drama, there are two far more homely scenes in the poem which remain among the epic’s…

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