John Chadwick
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Cambridge University had some hype for a conference on Linear B this past weekend: When during the early 20th century archaeologists excavated some of the most famous sites of Ancient Greece – notably Knossos on the island of Crete and Mycenae and Pylos on the mainland – they found large numbers of clay tablets inscribed…
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Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities rites in honour of Vediovis 429 B.C. — birth of Plato (by one reckoning) 70 A.D. — Roman forces break through Jerusalem’s middle wall 194 A.D.(?) — Septimius Severus acclaimed as Imperator 293 A.D. (?) — elevation of Galerius to the rank of…
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ante diem xii kalendas junias Agonalia — the rex sacrificulus would offer a ram to various deities rites in honour of Vediovis 429 B.C. — birth of Plato (by one reckoning) 70 A.D. — Roman forces break through Jerusalem’s middle wall 194 A.D.(?) — Septimius Severus acclaimed as Imperator 293 A.D. (?) — elevation of Galerius to the rank…
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