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Peloponnesian War Summary – Part One – Classical Wisdom Weekly http://classicalwisdom.com/the-peloponnesian-war-summary-part-one/ In At The Deep End | Sphinx https://thesphinxblog.com/2017/07/19/in-at-the-deep-end/ July 18, 64: The Great Fire Of Nero And The Ancient History Of Firefighting – Sarah Bond https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/18/july-18-64-the-great-fire-of-nero-and-the-ancient-history-of-firefighting/#6e5a61319544 Vindolanda Excavations July update 2017 http://www.vindolanda.com/_blog/excavation/post/july-update-2017/ The History Girls: Gibbon’s Decline and Fall – Reading for the age…
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BMCR: Gian Biagio Conte, Critical Notes on Virgil: Editing the Teubner Text of the Georgics and the Aeneid. http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/07/20170718.html BMCR: Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing (ed.), Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World. http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/07/20170719.html BMCR: Pietro Li Causi, Rosanna Marino, Marco Formisano, Marco Tullio Cicerone. De oratore:…
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Big line ups at Knossos: Endless Lines at Knossos Palace, Only One Ticket Stand (video) | GreekReporter.com http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/07/18/endless-lines-at-knossos-palace-only-one-ticket-stand-video/ Concerns for the site of Sebastapolis: Ancient Sebastapolis faces illegal excavations – Daily Sabah https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/19/ancient-sebastapolis-faces-illegal-excavations On the Trump administration’s love for Thucydides: The Summer of Misreading Thucydides – The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/the-summer-of-misreading-thucydides/533859/ Some political commentary by Danielle Allen:…
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We’re beginning to hear about this dig on Malta on a somewhat more regular basis. It first hit the news (for our purposes) back in 2011, when funding had been obtained to preserve it (see, e.g., Zejtun’s Roman Villa to be preserved | Times of Malta https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110514/local/zejtun-s-roman-villa-to-be-preserved.365287 ). Last summer, our Explorator newsletter picked up…
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Background: Back in March, The President of the Classical Association of Canada, Dr Mark Joyal contacted me about something I had mentioned on the Classics list way back in August of 2001. After poking around a bit, it was recalled that it was something I had come across on the About.com Canadian History site and…