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The largest extinction in Earth's history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia. This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil...

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An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans

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A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, in DNA extracted from 5,000-year-old human remains. Their analyses, published in the journal Cell, suggest that this strain is the closest ever identified to the genetic origin of plague. Their work also suggests that plague may have been spread among Neolithic European settlements by traders,...

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2018 excavations at Agios Sozomenos in Cyprus concluded

December 6, 2018, 9:00 am

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The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Communications and Works, announced the completion of the 6th season of excavations in the framework of the Agios Sozomenos Excavations and Survey Project (ASESP) at the localities Ampelia and Nikolides, under the direction of the Curator of Antiquities Dr. Despina Pilides. Stone basin at the Ampelia site, Agios Sozomenos [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus]This excavation...

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Ο Αλέξανδρος της Ακροπόλεως και τα πορτραίτα του Αλεξάνδρου στην Αθήνα

December 6, 2018, 4:00 pm

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December 07, 2018 18.00 - LECTURE Καθ. Όλγα Παλαγγιά (ΕΚΠΑ)

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December 07, 2018 19.00 - Πέτρος Θέμελης, Ομότιμος καθηγητής κλασικής αρχαιολογίας /Χαράλαμπος Μπακιρτζής, Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων ε.τ. /Νίκος Ξυδάκης, Βουλευτής Β΄ Αθηνών, πρώην υπουργός

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December 07, 2018 17.00 - LECTURE Luigi Battezzato (Professor of Greek Literature, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale ‘Amedeo Avogadro’)

The Value of Fragments

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The Roman Army A to Z: veterinarius

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veterinarius (m. pl. veterinarii)

Veterinary specialist. Dig. 50.6.7. CIL III, 11215; Tab. Vind. 310. [Goldsworthy 2003]

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veterinarium (n. pl. veterinaria)

Veterinary facility in a camp. DMC 4. [Johnson 1983]

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vexillarius (m. pl. vexillarii)

Standard-bearer who carried the vexillum. Liv. 8.8.4; Tac., Hist. 1.41.; v. veteranorumCIL V, 4903. See also vexillifer [Goldsworthy 2003]

N. Lanzarone, Il commento di Pomponio Leto all’Appendix Vergiliana

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Nicola Lanzarone, Il commento di Pomponio Leto all'Appendix Vergiliana. Edizione critica, Pise, 2018.

Éditeur : Edizioni ETS
Collection : esti e studi di cultura classica
188 pages
ISBN : 9788846752369
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Pomponio Leto, il celebre umanista che fu professore di latino nello Studium Vrbis nella seconda metà del Quattrocento, dedicò un'intensa attività didattica ed esegetica alle opere di Virgilio, non solo a Bucoliche, Georgiche ed Eneide, ma anche ai componimenti (oggi ritenuti generalmente spurii) che furono poi raccolti sotto il titolo di Appendix Vergiliana. Proprio il commento del Leto a questi poemetti viene qui pubblicato per la prima volta in una edizione critica, che, per una parte non piccola di tali annotazioni, costituisce anche l'editio princeps. Si tratta di una testimonianza significativa dello studio dei classici nel XV secolo e di un passaggio importante della plurisecolare esegesi virgiliana, che lascerà un'ampia traccia nei successivi commenti a Virgilio e allo Pseudo-Virgilio.

 

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December 7, 2018, 1:21 am

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December 7, 2018, 1:34 am

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Review of Hau et al. (eds.), Diodoros of Sicily

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Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

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The Doctor Who episode “The Androids of Tara” is part of the Key to Time sequence. According to the BBC website, it was apparently based on a late 19th century novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. It is just one of many episodes that features something that would be bound to happen in endless time and […]

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Selecid Coins Online (v.2)

December 7, 2018, 2:22 am

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Losing the 'Idea of archaeology': PAS Antiquitism as Scissors and Paste Archaeography

December 7, 2018, 2:47 am

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In the UK, the PAS is supposed to be doing value-for-public-money archaeological outreach to the British publis. What i9t does in its social media use is (gatekeeping other people's finds) concentrate largely on show-and-tell use of loose artefacts as illustrations of historiography, rarther than as a contexted source in their own right. Here we have another egregious example:

The text: "An unusual George III shilling, issued by the South Sea Company  (see initals on the reverse) and made c.1722 from silver they discovered and shipped from Indonesia. The SSC is famous for South Sea Bubble  economic  collapse and it's [sic] involvement in the   Slave Trade" https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/920675 …

This is scissors-and-paste artefactology and nothing else. I see a parallel with the discussion in his seminal The Idea of History (1946) by R.G. Collingwood of what constitutes historical evidence. He criticises “scissors and paste” historians. These are those who construct history merely by "excerpting and combining the testimonies of different authorities" (p. 251). Such historians are those who first “decide what we want to know about and then go in search of statements about it, oral or written, purporting to be made by actors in the events concerned” (p. 257). Collingwood then goes on to discuss the fact that historiographers who engage in this practice fail to ask why a particular statement was made at the time and take it as self evident that it relates to the historiographer’s own ideas. These historians are not seeing the context of the items they are using as evidence, merely picking those that fit preconceived ideas about the past. Furthermore, in order to facilitate fitting recorded words into a pre-existing scheme, the scissors-and-paste historiographer always wants more 'testimony' to bolster up the picture they want to paint (p. 279):

So, however much testimony he has, his zeal as an historian makes him want more. But if he has a large amount of testimony, it becomes so difficult to manipulate and work up into a convincing narrative that , speaking as a mere weak mortal, he wishes he had less [...]. The scissors-and-paste historian protects himself from seeing the truth about his own methods by carefully choosing subjects which he is able to ‘get away’ with [...]. The subjects must be those about which a certain amount of testimony is accessible, not too little and not too much; not so uniform as to give the historian nothing to do, not so divergent as to baffle his endeavours to do it. Practiced on these principles, history was at worst a parlour game, and at best an elegant accomplishment .

The FLO here is mimicking the coineys and duplicating their efforts. His 'archaeological' text differs in no substantive way from theirs. We don't need this.

Perhaps PAS might spend less time on parlour games and pandering and more time on a more substantive archaeological outreach.

EDB data updated!

December 7, 2018, 3:32 am

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We are please to announce that the update of the EDB data in EAGLE has been now completed. This makes it possible to considerably increase the number of objects (in particular images) available in the database.

Click here to browse the EAGLE inscriptions database.

10 Dec: Faculty closure

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The Faculty Building will be closed on Monday 10th December until noon while essential electrical work is carried out in the building.

What is the Future of Digital Epigraphy?

December 7, 2018, 5:56 am

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The annual meeting of IDEA – International Digital Epigraphy Association – will be held on January 21st, 2019 in Rome, at the Aula Teleconferenze in the Vetrerie Sciarra – Università “La Sapienza”.

The programme of the event is as follows:

10.30 – Silvia Orlandi, “Future perspectives of IDEA”

11.00 – Giulia Sarullo, “Report on the Zadar epygraphy.info workshop”

11.30 – Claudio Prandoni and Franco Zoppi, “Technical report on the maintenance activities of the portal”

12.00 – IDEA General Assembly

13.30 – Lunch

15.00 – Visit of the cloister of San Lorenzo fuori le mura

The participation fee is 100 € (75 € for AIEGL members) and will include the annual IDEA membership fee.

Those who will not be able to be present can participate to the event via Skype (in this case, please write to giulia.sarullo@gmail.com).