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What Are Livy's Stages in the History of Roman Theater?
Although Greece is credited with creating drama, and Greek customs heavily influenced the Romans, Rome has a separate history of drama. Livy describes the stages as roughly: Dances to flute music...
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Guess Who
© Francois MandevilleHints: She died at age 26, in A.D. 91. See Roman History Timeline.The great Roman satirist Juvenal wrote about her. Answer
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Fasti Online: Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS)...
From FastiOnline, about VIII 7, 1-15:The 2010 season for the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS) represented our sixth campaign of excavations during which three trenches...
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Charla "El agua y la ciudad romana de Los Bañales"
Por el perfil de facebook de Los Bañales hemos sabido que se va a celebrar una charla con el título "El agua y la ciudad romana de Los Bañales".Día: Sábado, 3 de marzo de 2012Horario: 19:00 - 20:30...
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More on the GEDSH
AT THE BETH MARDUTHO WEBSITE: List of Entries in the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Many are relevant to ancient Judaism and other matters that come up often at...
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2012.02.40: Rome's Imperial Economy: Twelve Essays
Review of W. V. Harris, Rome's Imperial Economy: Twelve Essays. Oxford; New York: 2011. Pp. xiv, 370. $150.00. ISBN 9780199595167.
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2012.02.41: Genres Rediscovered: Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy,...
Review of Anna Maria Wasyl, Genres Rediscovered: Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the Romano-Barbaric Age. Kraków: 2011. Pp. 290. ISBN 9788323330899.
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Bodleian Cairo Geniza online catalogue
AWOL: Genizah: Cairo Genizah Collection of the Bodleian libraries.The collection of Cairo Genizah fragments held at the Bodleian Libraries is one of the major collections of its kind. Acquired over the...
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Homère et Hésiode
À propos de deux monographies publiées par Gérard Lambin, au sujet d’Homère et d’Hésiode. Encore un ouvrage sur Homère, dira-t-on. À raison, peut-être parce que la bibliographie est vaste, mais sans...
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Speaking of the Cairo Geniza ...
GILUY MILTA B'ALMA: A new Midrash (to Jeremiah 23-24)? It is from the Cambridge Cairo Geniza collections, possibly donated by Rabbi Solomon Aaron Wertheimer; it consists of five leaves written in an...
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Human sons of God in Ben Sira 16:7?
REMNANT OF GIANTS: The Earliest Non-Angelic Interpretation of Genesis 6.1-4.Tyrone Slothrop thinks it's as early as Ben Sira. His interpretation of Sir 16:7 sounds possible, but I think one could also...
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Idus de Marzo en Los Bañales
Por el perfil de facebook de Los Bañales hemos sabido que van a celebrar un conjunto de actividades para todo el mes de Marzo bajo el nombre de Los Idus de Marzo en Los Bañales; algunas de estas...
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)On Saturday, I met up with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC) to do a spot of hieroglyph translation. For the session, I chose this short text on an...
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More re the threat to the Faiyum
Egypt Today (Farida Helmy)While the layman in Fayoum would probably welcome the idea of a project bringing in income and job opportunity to the quiet governorate, experts are far less eager.Fayoum is...
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Mervat Nasser opens cultural village to rekindle Egyptian love of heritage
Egypt Today (Nadine El Sayed)Nasser has had a standing interest in Egyptology and is an avid enthusiast and scholar versed in the philosophical and psychological heritage of ancient Egyptians. She's...
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Abu Simbel temple celebration to go on as planned
Egypt IndependentThe governor of Aswan has decided to go ahead with the annual celebration to commemorate the biannual solar phenomenon at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel despite Egypt’s current...
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Why did ancient Egyptians worship the crocodile?
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed el-Biali)To answer this question one must examine the physical attributes, lifestyle, and feeding patterns of this awesome beast. The African Nile crocodile, or crocodylus...
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Snappy new museum for Kom Ombo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref)The new Crocodile Museum stands on top of a 15-metre hillock on the doorstep of the Ptolemaic temple on the east bank of the Nile at Kom Ombo, where the ancient...
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6000 artefacts recovered from Israel
AllAfricaMinister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said that as many as 6,000 artifacts have been restored from Israel. Ibrahim was responding to inquiries from members of the People's Assembly Culture,...
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