Burial cairn circles and settlement discovered in India
A team of archaeologists and historians have discovered remnants of Iron Age and Satavahana era (230 BCE - 220 CE) from Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, in Southeastern India. A...
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Robert Hecht: "bought from Medici in good faith"
The Daily Telegraph (London) has published a full obituary of Robert Hecht. The focus of the obituary is the sale of the Sarpedon krater to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art but careful attention...
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Star Wars Valentines
As Valentine’s Day Approaches, Star Wars fans will be looking for those expressions of love that are strong in the Force. There are lots of free Star Wars valentines available online, including some...
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Lasa and the transgendered deity
The consensus on the Etruscan term lasa is that it may be equivalent to the Greek concept of 'nymph'. "It might be possible someday to establish some kind of correspondence between Lasa and the Greek...
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I Rutherford, D. Obbink, Culture In Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour...
Culture In PiecesEssays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter ParsonsEdited by Dirk Obbink and Richard RutherfordThis volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September...
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Alasdair Livingstone began his chapter on “Expositions of Mystical Mathematics and Philology” with these words, Babylonian scholars were at times concerned with explaining aspects of their culture. The...
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CONF : “Gender and sexuality in the city : Politics of sex in Plato’s...
Seen on the Classicists list: Colloque international – International symposium Genre et sexualité dans la cité La politique du sexe dans les dialogues de Platon Gender and sexuality in the city...
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CFP: An End to Unity? East and West in the Fourth Century
Seen on the Classicists list: The fourth century was a pivotal age in the history of the Roman Empire, an age of transition: New residencies of imperial power emerged in both West and East, with...
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CFP: Latin, National Identity and the Language Question in Central Europe
Seen on the Classicists list: We would like to call your attention to the conference entitled "Latin, National Identity and the Language Question in Central Europe" organised by Ludwig Boltzmann...
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European Tourist Detained in Syria for Alleged Artefact Smuggling
.It was reported yesterday that a person was arrested on February 4 and is being detained in Syria on suspicion of smuggling ancient coins. The unnamed woman is married to a Syrian national and lives...
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Lupercalia is one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays (one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from even before the time Julius Caesar reformed the calendar) and ...Read Full Post
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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage
THE GORGIAS ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF THE SYRIAC HERITAGE is now in print:Brock, Sebastian, Aaron Butts, George Kiraz, and Lucas Van Rompay. Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage...
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Footnote director interviewed
JOSEPH CEDAR is interviewed by Daphne Merkin in The Tablet: Writing Footnote: Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy...
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The Queen of Sheba's mines?
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA is back in archaeological news:Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealthA British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve...
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2012.02.23: Aristotle and Determinism. (first published 1989 as Ethos:...
Review of Pier Luigi Donini, Aristotle and Determinism. (first published 1989 as Ethos: Aristotele e il determinismo). Artistote: traductions et études. Louvain-la-Neuve: 2010. Pp. 205. €48.00 (pb)....
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2012.02.22: The Social and Legal Position of Widows and Orphans in Classical...
Review of Richard V. Cudjoe, The Social and Legal Position of Widows and Orphans in Classical Athens. Symboles, 3. Athens: 2010. Pp. xxi, 309. ISBN 9789609925006.
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2012.02.21: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche....
Review of Walter Burkert, Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche. Zweite, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage (first edition 1977). Die Religionen der Menschheit Band 15....
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Islamic Mob Smashes Buddhas
An Islamic mob has smashed historic statutes of Buddha in the National Museum of the Maldives apparently because they saw them as idolatrous....
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Kertch Museum Online
Kerch Historical and Cultural ReserveПожалуй, нет в Украине города древнее Керчи. Основанный на месте современного города в VI веке до Р.Х. Пантикапей был столицей могущественного Боспорского царства....
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