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Aspendos Gladiator School
Image via Wikipedia The Aspendos Gladiator School is planning to train Turkish oil wrestlers to re-enact the gladiator fights of ancient Rome in the southern Province of Antalya. The school is in the...
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Citanda: Why Can’t Rome Protect Its Cultural Treasures?
Image by kevsunblush via Flickr In the wake of last week’s chunk of mortar/plaster falling off the Colosseum, Newsweek has an interesting editorialish thing … here’s the last bit: At the Coliseum,...
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Citanda: What’s So Funny About Plautus?
Interview with a recent Classics Grad: What’s so funny about Plautus? Let’s ask Mara Miller.
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Gladiator Graveyard?
From the Times … seems to be hyping an upcoming TV documentary: Archaeologists believe that they may have discovered a Roman gladiator cemetery near York city centre. About 80 remains have been found...
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Roman Remains in Sofia
AFP seems to be the only one covering this … I can’t find that we’ve mentioned anything about this before either: The remains of an ancient Roman town were on Thursday unveiled to the public in the...
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More from Sofia/Serdica
On the heels of last week’s announcement of the opening of a major Roman site to the public, the Sofia News Agency tells us that archaeologists are on the trail (they hope) of Constantine’s palace...
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This Day in Ancient History
[a couple of years ago I was experimenting with this format] ante diem iii nonas quinctilias Poplifugia — a festival the origins of which were forgotten by the time folks began writing about things;...
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This Day inAncient History: ante diem vii idus quinctilias
Image via Wikipedia ante diem vii idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 4) 597 B.C. — a suggested date for Thales‘ eclipse (or so it was thought in several 19th century (and earlier) sources 118 A.D....
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Rethinking the ‘Domus of the Dancing Cherubs’ at Aquileia
This probably won’t last long at ANSA: Archaeologists working on the remains of an ancient dwelling in northern Italy have reassessed their ideas about the site after uncovering lavish decorations and...
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Also Seen: Ancient Celebrities
Interesting item by Robert Garland at History Today: Celebrity in the Ancient World
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Ancient Roman Cinema Projector? I Hae Me Doots Big Time
This has been an aggravating post to get out … first of all, tip o’ the pileus to Richard Campbell for alerting us to this story early this a.m.; a pox on my slow internet connection which prevented me...
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On Rome Disarming Her Subjects
In the wake of the evil deeds in Aurora, Colorado last week, I was trying to remember whether the Romans had an ancient equivalent of ‘gun control’ and I seem to recall some prof or another in my...
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Roman Wedding at Nicopolis ad Istrum
I really think focus-fen ought to look into a better translation service: The wedding ritual will start at around 4 p.m. The entire ceremony and the wedding festivities will be held in the spirit of...
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‘Gun Control’ and the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Very interesting post at the New Yorker‘s Culture Desk by Melissa Lane … here’s a bit in medias res: The pioneers of citizen armies were also pioneers of withdrawing weapons from the places of...
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Recreating Roman Pantomime
Just a week or so ago we mentioned the Practicing Pantomime Project … the folks involved should maybe talk to this guy, or he should talk to them … from Pressconnects: For his final project as a...
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