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Blogosphere ~ Recycled Piranesis and an impossible Pantheon: The Grand Tour...
Penelope’s Weavings and Unpickings: Recycled Piranesis and an impossible Pantheon: The Grand Tour paintings from the Ebony Bedroom at Charlecote Park in Warwickshire.
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Blogosphere ~ Uxoricide and Arboricide
Laudator Temporis Acti: Uxoricide and Arboricide.
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Blogosphere ~ The reported thoracic injuries in Homer’s Iliad
History of the Ancient World: The reported thoracic injuries in Homer’s Iliad.
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Blogosphere ~ The Homogenisation of Military Equipment Under the Roman Republic
History of the Ancient World: The Homogenisation of Military Equipment Under the Roman Republic.
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Blogosphere ~ Highlights from the Gallo-Roman Museum in Lyon, part 4
Bread and Circuses via Highlights from the Gallo-Roman Museum in Lyon, part 4.
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This Day in Ancient History:
ante diem vii kalendas novembres ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C. 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be...
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Classical Words of the Day
immure (Merriam Webster) reliquary (OED) satanophany (Wordnik) Latinitweets: adverb: quam , indeclinable => than bit.ly/IKAclf #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab— (@LatinVocab) October 26, 2012 vitare: to...
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Recent PAS Finds
I’m sure Owen Jarus’ latest piece for LiveScience will get plenty of play this weekend … they’ll probably alter the headline, though: Penis-Shaped Bone & Lover’s Bust Among Trove of Roman Art...
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October 01, 2012 - 12:47 PM - MYCENAEAN SEMINAR Dr Helen Αndrikou, Vice-Director, Second Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
View Article“Palatial and Post-Palatial Thebes”
November 01, 2012 - 4:42 PM - MYCENAEAN SEMINAR Dr Helen Αndrikou, Vice-Director, Second Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
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Matters Ampersandish
This is really on the periphery of our purview, but is really interesting:
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Lucy and Selam’s species climbed trees
Australopithecus afarensis was an upright walking species, but the question of whether it also spent much of its time in trees has been the subject of much debate. This is partly because a complete set...
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Exhibition: “The Age of Balance”
Nice little video report on an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums:
View ArticleΤο ταξίδι της γραφής στην αρχαία Αίγυπτο.
November 07, 2012 - 1:05 PM - Lecture Δρ. Αμάντα-Αλίκη Μαραβέλια, Ahmed Mansour
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November 01, 2012 - 1:30 PM - Symposium Michel Foucher, Lawrence Harisson
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Aristotle, Rhetoric 1419b
περὶ δὲ τῶν γελοίων, ἐπειδή τινα δοκεῖ χρῆσιν ἔχειν ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι, καὶ δεῖν ἔφη Γοργίας τὴν μὲν σπουδὴν διαφθείρειν τῶν ἐναντίων γέλωτι τὸν δὲ γέλωτα σπουδῇ, ὀρθῶς λέγων, εἴρηται πόσα εἴδη γελοίων...
View ArticleDid Origen say “The Scriptures are of little use to those who understand them...
I came across a post online which made some curious claims about Origen, repeated from here. In particular: “The Scriptures,” Origen maintained, “are of little use to those who understand them as...
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Open Access Week 2012
It is Open Access Week 2012. This is the second of two Ancient World Online (AWOL) related posting for the event. The first is here.I discovered yesterday that the the pre-1990 back list of Brooklyn...
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In memoriam: Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun has died. Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian and administrator whose sheer breadth of scholarship — culminating in a survey of 500 years of Western civilization — brought...
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