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Image by Tintern via Flickr I suspect this one from the Toledo Museum of Art will be popular among our readers: Andrea Mall discussed room groupings in Roman domestic architecture and their decoration at the Toledo Museum of Art. These suites of rooms, or diaetae as they were called in Latin, likely had their origin…
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s another one from the Toledo Museum of Art … here’s the official description of an interesting talk on the fanaticism of fans ar Roman chariot races: Dr. Sinclair Bell, Professor in the Department of Art History at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, presented his program “Fans and Fame in the Roman…
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The Summer 2010 edition of Iris is out this month, and the theme of this issue is crime and punishment in the ancient world. Contents include: * Romans behaving badly: crime and punishment in Rome * Iris chat: Andrew Irvine, author of ‘Socrates on Trial’ * CSI Athens: the crime scene in ancient Greece *…
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nonas maias 431 B.C. — the “Peloponnesian War” began (according to one reckoning) 399 B.C. — death of Socrates (according to one reckoning) 1941 — death of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough)
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ante diem v kalendas maias ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 1) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided…
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