Dear Members, I have made avialable a color image and a diagram of the fragment of the pre-Severian marble plan (architectual) depicting the Forum of Augustus...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 1, 2007 10:12 pm
My Classics consultant responds with an excerpt. Interesting . . . "Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy that became one of Zeus' lovers. One source of the...
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amicus@...
alexiuscomnenus
Oct 1, 2007 10:59 pm
Regarding Zeus and Ganymede - that was his only long lasting affair; those with women were usually just one night stands. From the Argonautica I get the...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 2, 2007 8:32 am
Posted by: "amicus@..." amicus@... alexiuscomnenus Date: Mon Oct 1, 2007 11:59 pm Regarding Zeus and Ganymede - that was his...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 2, 2007 8:51 am
Archaeology is a necessary science The San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2007 Cal Day brings over 35,000 community members to the Berkeley campus every...
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alexiuscomnenus
Oct 2, 2007 9:41 am
... Except that Cupid would cheat at games! ;-))...
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ancientworldbooks
ancientworld...
Oct 3, 2007 6:29 am
Greetings, October's catalogue of newest arrivals includes over 150 titles. This month's attached list of titles have been posted for sale under the Recent...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 6, 2007 9:23 am
Alot of this relates to stuff I'm reading about in "The Grass Crown". Interesting that something like this could happen so late in the Republic, indeed well...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 6, 2007 6:09 pm
[feltre.org] The Apology of Socrates The Chicago Humanities Festival will present a one-man theatrical performance by Emmy-winner Yannis Simonides of Socrates'...
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Richard
rcetmorgan
Oct 6, 2007 7:11 pm
Rome had out-grown it's city-constitution. The Italians, Latins and Romans caused the citizen population to trible giving Rome that extra force they needed to...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Oct 6, 2007 7:14 pm
Like the Superindtendant nothing suprises me. Another great Roman monument the Pont du Gard has a lot of graffitit some of it dated in the ninteenth century...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Oct 6, 2007 7:18 pm
The Grass crown is a very entertaining book and provied you remember that McCullough uses her imagination to fill in gaps in the historical record informative....
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Irene Hahn
lennep95
Oct 7, 2007 3:17 pm
We have been reading The Grass Crown in our reading group earlier in the year and I did some blogging on the Social War: ...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 7, 2007 8:24 pm
Ancient Greeks built amazing structures without fully understanding the math involved: http://tinyurl.com/yqmqsq ...
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William Pearson
riffrafftx
Oct 8, 2007 7:29 pm
I tend to think that the political system of Rome was such that a single battle, though decisive loss it was, couldn't have eventually caused the downfall of...
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David Wills
dwills777
Oct 8, 2007 8:26 pm
For those of us who didn't see the show, which battle are we referring to here? William Pearson <riffraffdj@...> wrote: I tend to think that the...
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Irene Hahn
lennep95
Oct 8, 2007 9:17 pm
Is anyone familiar with the ancient history novels of Michael Curtis Ford? If so, what is your opinion? Irene Roman History Reading Group ...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 9, 2007 4:02 am
Greece to create Alexander the Great museum Agence France-Presse, September 28, 2007 Greece will dedicate a museum to Alexander the Great in the northern town...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 11, 2007 3:07 pm
[about.com] Day of the Barbarians For those non-specialists who want a clear look at the background and probable events at the Battle of Adrianople or the...
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Irene Hahn
lennep95
Oct 12, 2007 3:01 pm
I'm not as wholly positive as my friend N.S. Gill, but it is still a book worth reading as long as you apply the proverbial grain of salt. But with her, I do...
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rdrabkin
Oct 14, 2007 1:14 am
Yeah. The book was pretty good. But short. Not really a read you can get into...readable but short. Guess much of the history is not known :( Ron...
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Reinhard Dollinger
galerie_agora
Oct 14, 2007 5:52 pm
Dear Group-members, we prepared our recent auctions at e-Bay, with some roman coins and several other ancient items. Take a look at ...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 14, 2007 10:19 pm
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/no-regrets-for-colleen-mccullough/2007/10/09/1191695905319.html www.theage.com.au ARTS BOOKS EPICURE FILM MUSIC ...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 15, 2007 1:10 am
Ancient world treasure unearthed BBC, 4 October 2007 After seven hot summers of digging, an Italian archaeological team believe they have discovered one of the...
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postumusagrippa
Oct 15, 2007 7:21 pm
Hmm. I would contend that Augustus' date of accession was not 27BCE - he had already been in charge of half the Roman state for at least a decade before that,...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Oct 15, 2007 7:26 pm
Well of course the problem with dating Augustus coming to power was the gradual accretion of powers. You can be certain that after Marcus Antonius death he was...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Oct 15, 2007 7:58 pm
Having just arrived back from Naples I have to say that the Villa Poppea at Oplontis was absolutely amazing. Not suprisingly being an Imperial Villa the...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Oct 15, 2007 8:48 pm
Here are the first few I have put up on my Flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauiscaecilius/?saved=1 If you have any trouble with the link.please...
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robert-blau@...
rb2717
Oct 15, 2007 10:13 pm
Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts The Washington Post, October 7, 2007 On Saturday, huge cranes will begin lifting ancient statues,...
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judith weingarten
judithweinga...
Oct 16, 2007 10:13 am
Dear Robert, Dear all, Another very interesting things about the site is the demonstration of religious 'continuity' and usurpation. Already signalled in 2006...
