• Hodie est  V Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News Archaeologists Discover Amazon Warrior In Ancient Armenian Grave  Tornos News | New Bronze Age finds by excavations at Agios Sozomenos of Cyprus in 2019  Roman pottery found at former Cowley petrol station site |…

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  • Hodie est  VI Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 30 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News Erotic fresco depicting Greek myth unveiled in Pompeii | Science | The Guardian  Pompeii’s grand baths unveiled, with hidden tragedy Hidden treasures of Pompeii put on show for the first time | World |…

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  • Hodie est  VII Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 29 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad … another quiet Monday … In the News Christie’s urged to pull sale of Roman statue ‘linked to illicit dealers’ | Art and design | The Guardian  Classicists and Classics in the News Anne Carson: an introduction…

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  • Hodie est  VIII Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News Roman period coins excavated and taken to the British museum | Herald Series  Ancient shipwreck in Dreamer’s Bay confirmed by Antiquities Department – Cyprus Mail  Ancient baths discovered in southern Mersin  Work to create…

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  • Reprinted with kind permission of Barry Baldwin himself, who years ago had to endure yours truly as a student. Errors in transcription naturally accrue to the latter. Justin Marozzi’s splendid The Way of Herodotus, 2008 (potted version, Spectator, 21 Nov 2009) inspires updated expansion of my previous (FT179:16, 180:18) inspections. Further impetus from the Herodotus-loving…

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