L Iulia Aquila Pontifex omnibus Quiritibus Novis Romanis salutem plurimam dicit,

Today I performed the Kalends ritual with C. Petronius Dexter Pontifex Maximus who is here visiting in Nashville and it follows:


Those Kalends are sacred to Fides.

This day, we invoked Iuno Covella with the traditional formula:

"Die Septimi te kalo Iuno Covella"

We said good prayers asking the Goddess to be favorable toward
us, New Romans.

We offered incense and poured milk as sacrifice and honey as piaculum.

B 1 Kal. Oct. N
C 2 a.d. VI Non. Oct. F Ater
D 3 a.d. V Non. Oct. C
E 4 a.d. IV Non. Oct. C Ludi Plebeii
F 5 a.d. III Non. Oct. C L. Plebeii
G 6 pr. Non. Oct. C L. Plebeii
H 7 Non. Oct. F L. Plebeii
A 8 a.d. VIII Id. Oct. F Nundina, Ater, L.Plebeii
B 9 a.d. VII Id. Oct. C L. Plebeii
C 10 a.d. VI Id. Oct. C L. Plebeii
D 11 a.d. V Id. Oct. NP Meditrinalia, L. Plebeii
E 12 a.d. IV Id. Oct. C L. Plebeii
F 13 a.d. III Id. Oct. NP Fontinalia, L. Plebeii
G 14 pr. Id. Oct. EN
H 15 Id. Oct. NP Feriae Iovi,Equus October
A 16 a.d. XVII Kal. Nov. F Nundina, Ater
B 17 a.d. XVI Kal. Nov. C
C 18 a.d. XV Kal. Nov. C
D 19 a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. NP Armilustrium
E 20 a.d. XIII Kal. Nov. C
F 21 a.d. XII Kal. Nov. C
G 22 a.d. XI Kal. Nov. C
H 23 a.d. X Kal. Nov. C
A 24 a.d. IX Kal. Nov. C Nundina
B 25 a.d. VIII Kal. Nov. C
C 26 a.d. VII Kal. Nov. C
D 27 a.d. VI Kal. Nov. C
E 28 a.d. V Kal. Nov. C
F 29 a.d. IV Kal. Nov. C
G 30 a.d. III Kal. Nov. C
H 31 pr. Kal. Nov. C


Optime valete.

L. Iulia Aquila Pontifex Novae Romae
Nashvillae Scribebat

Est enim amicitia nihil aliud nisi omnium divinarum humanarumque rerum cum benevolenta et caritate consensio, qua quidem haud scio an excepta spientia nil quicquam melius homini sit a dis immortalibus datum

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Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est Kalendis Octobribus; hic dies nefastus est.

"Come let duteous Rome recognize October's kalends, the birthday of
eloquent Restitutius: with all your tongues, and in all your prayers,
utter well-omed words; we keep a birthday, be still, ye lawsuits!" -
Martial

"Goddess more ancient than Jupiter, virtuous glory of gods and men,
without whom there is no peace on earth, nor on the seas, sister of
Justicia, Fides, silent divinity within the hearts of men and women"
- Silius Italicus, Punica 2.484-87

On this day a procession to the Capitol was led by the three chief
flamines who rode in a covered wagon. With the fingers of their right
hands wrapped with white cloth bands, they sacrificed to the abstract
gods of Faith and Honor. Afterwards was held a feast.


"There happened to be in each of the armies a triplet of brothers,
fairly matched in years and strength. It is generally agreed that they
were called Horatii and Curiatii. Few incidents in antiquity have been
more widely celebrated, yet in spite of its celebrity there is a
discrepancy in the accounts as to which nation each belonged. There
are authorities on both sides, but I find that the majority give the
name of Horatii to the Romans, and my sympathies lead me to follow
them. The kings suggested to them that they should each fight on
behalf of their country, and where victory rested, there should be the
sovereignty. They raised no objection; so the time and place were
fixed. But before they engaged a treaty was concluded between the
Romans and the Albans, providing that the nation whose representatives
proved victorious should receive the peaceable submission of the
other. This is the earliest treaty recorded, and as all treaties,
however different the conditions they contain, are concluded with the
same forms, I will describe the forms with which this one was
concluded as handed down by tradition. The Fetial put the formal
question to Tullus: "Do you, King, order me to make a treaty with the
Pater Patratus of the Alban nation?" On the king replying in the
affirmative, the Fetial said: "I demand of thee, King, some tufts of
grass." The king replied: "Take those that are pure." The Fetial
brought pure grass from the Citadel. Then he asked the king: "Do you
constitute me the plenipotentiary of the People of Rome, the Quirites,
sanctioning also my vessels and comrades?" To which the king replied:
"So far as may be without hurt to myself and the People of Rome, the
Quirites, I do." The Fetial was M. Valerius. He made Spurius Furius
the Pater Patratus by touching his head and hair with the grass. Then
the Pater Patratus, who is constituted for the purpose of giving the
treaty the religious sanction of an oath, did so by a long formula in
verse, which it is not worth while to quote. After reciting the
conditions he said: "Hear, O Jupiter, hear! thou Pater Patratus of the
people of Alba! Hear ye, too, people of Alba! As these conditions have
been publicly rehearsed from first to last, from these tablets, in
perfect good faith, and inasmuch as they have here and now been most
clearly understood, so these conditions the People of Rome will not be
the first to go back from. If they shall, in their national council,
with false and malicious intent be the first to go back, then do thou,
Jupiter, on that day, so smite the People of Rome, even as I here and
now shall smite this swine, and smite them so much the more heavily,
as thou art greater in power and might." With these words he struck
the swine with a flint. In similar wise the Albans recited their oath
and formularies through their own dictator and their priests.

On the conclusion of the treaty the six combatants armed themselves.
They were greeted with shouts of encouragement from their comrades,
who reminded them that their fathers' gods, their fatherland, their
fathers, every fellow-citizen, every fellow-soldier, were now watching
their weapons and the hands that wielded them. Eager for the contest
and inspired by the voices round them, they advanced into the open
space between the opposing lines. The two armies were sitting in front
of their respective camps, relieved from personal danger but not from
anxiety, since upon the fortunes and courage of this little group hung
the issue of dominion. Watchful and nervous, they gaze with feverish
intensity on a spectacle by no means entertaining. The signal was
given, and with uplifted swords the six youths charged like a
battle-line with the courage of a mighty host. Not one of them thought
of his own danger; their sole thought was for their country, whether
it would be supreme or subject, their one anxiety that they were
deciding its future fortunes. When, at the first encounter, the
flashing swords rang on their opponents' shields, a deep shudder ran
through the spectators; then a breathless silence followed, as neither
side seemed to be gaining any advantage. Soon, however, they saw
something more than the swift movements of limbs and the rapid play of
sword and shield: blood became visible flowing from open wounds. Two
of the Romans fell one on the other, breathing out their life, whilst
all the three Albans were wounded. The fall of the Romans was welcomed
with a burst of exultation from the Alban army; whilst the Roman
legions, who had lost all hope, but not all anxiety, trembled for
their solitary champion surrounded by the three Curiatii. It chanced
that he was untouched, and though not a match for the three together,
he was confident of victory against each separately. So, that he might
encounter each singly, he took to flight, assuming that they would
follow as well as their wounds would allow. He had run some distance
from the spot where the combat began, when, on looking back, he saw
them following at long intervals from each other, the foremost not far
from him. He turned and made a desperate attack upon him, and whilst
the Alban army were shouting to the other Curiatii to come to their
brother's assistance, Horatius had already slain his foe and, flushed
with victory, was awaiting the second encounter. Then the Romans
cheered their champion with a shout such as men raise when hope
succeeds to despair, and he hastened to bring the fight to a close.
Before the third, who was not far away, could come up, he despatched
the second Curiatius. The survivors were now equal in point of
numbers, but far from equal in either confidence or strength. The one,
unscathed after his double victory, was eager for the third contest;
the other, dragging himself wearily along, exhausted by his wounds and
by his running, vanquished already by the previous slaughter of his
brothers, was an easy conquest to his victorious foe. There was, in
fact, no fighting. The Roman cried exultingly: "Two have I sacrificed
to appease my brothers' shades; the third I will offer for the issue
of this fight, that the Roman may rule the Alban." He thrust his sword
downward into the neck of his opponent, who could no longer lift his
shield, and then despoiled him as he lay. Horatius was welcomed by the
Romans with shouts of triumph, all the more joyous for the fears they
had felt. Both sides turned their attention to burying their dead
champions, but with very different feelings, the one rejoicing in
wider dominion, the other deprived of their liberty and under alien
rule. The tombs stand on the spots where each fell; those of the
Romans close together, in the direction of Alba; the three Alban
tombs, at intervals, in the direction of Rome." - Livy, History of
Rome 1.24-25

On this day was also commemorated the fight between the Horatii and
the Curiatii, known as the tigillum sororium. As Rome began to
expand, her neighbors did not always willingly submit to her control.
Alba Longa, the city founded by Aeneas' son Iulus (Ascanius), was one
such city. Frictions also arose because of cattle raiding between the
cities. According to the legend, Tullius Hostilius, king of Rome,
decided against full-scale war of city against city. Instead he
proposed single combats between a triplet of three brothers from Rome,
the Horatii, and another set of male triplets, the Curiatii, who were
citizens of Alba. Alba Longa agreed. The opponents were well-matched
and battle was fierce: all three Curiatii received wounds but two of
the Horatii were killed. The third resorted to a strategem: he fled,
which lured the Curiatii into pursuing him. But as they ran the
wounded and weakened Curiatii separated from each other and space
increased between them. This enabled the last of the Horatii to turn
and confront each individually. He succeeded in killing them one by
one, and thus won the day for Rome. The city of Alba Longa was
destroyed and Roman influence throughout Latium increased. The story
of the Horatii became a favorite for its celebration of stamina,
courage against the odds, and willingness to die for one's country.
The sister of the Horatii, however, openly wept over the death of one
of the Curiatii who had been her lover. In anger her surviving brother
killed her. For this murder he was condemned to death but was spared
when he appealed to the people. To do penance he was veiled and led
under a yoke, which was a typical punishment indicating submission to
the will of another. Unlike a yoke typically used with oxen or to
carry heavy buckets from one's shoulders, the punishment yoke was
created from three spears to form a doorway through which the penitent
must crawl.

Valete bene!

Cato

Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem VI Idus Octobris; hic dies fastus
aterque est.

"Whilst the Romans were passing their time quietly at the outposts, a
gigantic Gaul in splendid armour advanced towards them, and delivered
a challenge through an interpreter to meet any Roman in single combat.
There was a young military tribune, named Marcus Valerius, who
considered himself no less worthy of that honour than T. Manlius had
been. After obtaining the consul's permission, he marched, completely
armed, into the open ground between the two armies. The human element
in the fight was thrown into the shade by the direct interposition of
the gods, for just as they were engaging a crow settled all of a
sudden on the Roman's helmet with its head towards his antagonist. The
tribune gladly accepted this as a divinely-sent augury, and prayed
that whether it were god or goddess who had sent the auspicious bird
that deity would be gracious to him and help him. Wonderful to relate,
not only did the bird keep its place on the helmet, but every time
they encountered it rose on its wings and attacked the Gaul's face and
eyes with beak and talon, until, terrified at the sight of so dire a
portent and bewildered in eyes and mind alike, he was slain by
Valerius. Then, soaring away eastwards, the crow passed out of sight.
Hitherto the outposts on both sides had remained quiet, but when the
tribune began to despoil his foeman's corpse, the Gauls no longer kept
their posts, whilst the Romans ran still more swiftly to help the
victor. A furious fight took place round the body as it lay, and not
only the maniples at the nearest outposts but the legions pouring out
from the camp joined in the fray. The soldiers were exultant at their
tribune's victory and at the manifest presence and help of the gods,
and as Camillus ordered them into action he pointed to the tribune,
conspicuous with his spoils, and said: "Follow his example, soldiers,
and lay the Gauls in heaps round their fallen champion!" Gods and man
alike took part in the battle, and it was fought out to a finish,
unmistakably disastrous to the Gauls, so completely had each army
anticipated a result corresponding to that of the single combat. Those
Gauls who began the fight fought desperately, but the rest of the host
who came to help them turned back before they came within range of the
missiles. They dispersed amongst the Volscians and over the Falernian
district; from thence they made their way to Apulia and the western
sea.

The consul mustered his troops on parade, and after praising the
conduct of the tribune presented him with ten oxen and a golden
chaplet. In consequence of instructions received from the senate he
took over the maritime war and joined his forces with those of the
praetor. The Greeks were too lacking in courage to run the risk of a
general engagement, and there was every prospect of the war proving a
long one. Camillus was in consequence authorised by the senate to
nominate T. Manlius Torquatus as Dictator for the purpose of
conducting the elections. After appointing A. Cornelius Cossus as
Master of the Horse, the Dictator proceeded to hold the consular
elections. Marcus Valerius Corvus (for that was henceforth his
cognomen), a young man of twenty-three, was declared to be duly
elected amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the people. His colleague
was the plebeian, M. Popilius Laenas, now elected for the fourth time.
Nothing worth recording took place between Camillus and the Greeks;
they were no fighters on land and the Romans could not fight on the
sea. Ultimately, as they were prevented from landing anywhere and
water and the other necessaries of life failed them, they abandoned
Italy. To what Greek state or nationality that fleet belonged is a
matter of uncertainty; I think it most likely that it belonged to the
Tyrant of Sicily, for Greece itself was at that time exhausted by
intestine wars and was watching with dread the growing power of
Macedonia." - Livy, History of Rome 7.26


Today is also celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as the Feast of
the Guardian Angels. The word "angel" originated from the Latin
"angelus", itself derived from the Greek "aggelos", meaning
"messenger". An angel is a spiritual being which assists and serves
God or the gods in many religious traditions. A belief in angels, for
example, is central to the religion of Islam, beginning with the
belief that the Qu'ran was dictated to the Prophet Muhammed by the
angel Gabriel. The idea of a guardian angel or spirit predates
Christianity, as in Rome where every man had his genius – the
guiding or tutelary spirit of a person or indeed of an entire gens
– and every woman her Iuno. Belief in tutelary gods or spirits often
reflects a tradition of animism. We might think of the tutelary
spirits (in particular, genius loci, spirits associated with and
protective of place) of England as King Arthur and St. George, of
Sherwood Forest as Robin Hood, and Windsor Park, Herne. The Celtic
goddess Brigantia was tutelary goddess of the Brigantes tribe of
England. Individuals might also have tutelary spirits – angels,
fairy godmothers, totems or spirit guides, for example.

The Roman religion had dozens of tutelary spirits, such as Diana of
Aricia, who watched over a sacred grove at Aricia, or the goddess
Levana, who watched over young children. The Lares and Penates were
local tutelary deities, as was the genius loci, a spirit said to be
present in certain places. Venus is mentioned by Catullus and Juvenal
as the tutelary deity of Ancona, Italy. A comparable term from Arabic
lore is a djinn, known in English as a `genie'. Shinto is
also a religion whose many spirits, or kami, could be described as
tutelary. Finnish mythology had such tutelary spirits as Kotitonttu,
tutelary of the home; Pihatonttu (of the yard); Saunatonttu (of the
sauna); Tonttu (a generally benign tutelary). Hiisi are a kind of
tutelary spirit in mythologies of the Baltic Sea area. In Indonesia, a
guardian angel may be hung over an infant's crib to supposedly
safeguard them as they sleep.


Valete bene!

Cato

Salvete Omnes!

... they eat! Especially if they have a resident French chef! They also
laugh (a lot!), and talk, and honor our gods, and do all manner of wonderful
things, some planned, some on the spur of the moment.

I met 3 very dear friends in Nashville, and had a wonderful week of serious
play, delicious food, and just plain fun! We decided to rent a home which
is used for vacation rentals, and it was an excellent move. The house was
very comfortable, and lent itself nicely to being lived in. It meant that
we had more time together, didn't need to worry about motels, got to do our
own cooking (grand fun!), got to curl up and relax in the living room, and
be what we essentially are ...an extended family.

We also took road trips. Of special note was the trip to Chattanooga, to
see the aquarium, where, among other things, I got to pet a snake, and to
the Nashville International festival, where we ...um, yes ...ate even more,
watched dancing from several cultures, and played in the sunshine for a
lovely afternoon. We spent a fair amount of time in the Nashville
Parthenon, too, and got to see some of Nashville's lovely neoclassical
architecture. BTW, Latin lessons and breakfast do go well together ...after
at least 2 cups of coffee, that is. In short, I had a great time, and
could wish to be back in my spot on the couch, working on a scarf while
watching TV, peppered liberally with commentary in a polyglot of languages,
English, Latin, French, and just for fun, a bit of German and Spanish!
Trust me, Nashville will *never* be the same!

Oh, yes, and there will be pictures, soon!

Valete bene!
C. Maria Caeca, exhausted, but happy, with a heart warmed by the kindness
and friendship of 3 very, very fine people.

Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem V Nonas Octobris; haec dies comitialis est.

"To their religious performances were added the pleasures of wine and
feasting, to allure a greater number of proselytes. When wine,
lascivious discourse, night, and the intercourse of the sexes had
extinguished every sentiment of modesty, then debaucheries of every
kind began to be practiced, as every person found at hand that sort of
enjoyment to which he was disposed by the passion predominant in his
nature. Nor were they confined to one species of vice - the
promiscuous intercourse of free-born men and women; but from this
store-house of villainy proceeded false witnesses, counterfeit seals,
false evidences, and pretended discoveries. From the same place, too,
proceeded poison and secret murders, so that in some cases, not even
the bodies could be found for burial. Many of their audacious deeds
were brought about by treachery, but most of them by force; it served
to conceal the violence, that, on account of the loud shouting, and
the noise of drums and cymbals, none of the cries uttered by the
persons suffering violence or murder could be heard abroad.

The infection of this mischief, like that from the contagion of
disease, spread from Etruria to Rome; where, the size of the city
affording greater room for such evils, and more means of concealment,
cloaked it at first; but information of it was at length brought to
the consul, Postumius. There was a freedwoman called Hispala Fecenia,
a noted courtesan who gave a full account of the origin of the
mysteries. 'At first,' she said, 'those rites were performed by women.
No man used to be admitted. They had three stated days in the year on
which persons were initiated among the Bacchanalians, in the daytime.
The matrons used to be appointed priestesses, in rotation. Paculla
Minia, a Campanian, when priestess, made an alteration in every
particular, as if by the direction of the gods. For she first
introduced men, who were her own sons, Minucius and Herrenius, both
surnamed Cerrinius; changed the time of celebration, from day to
night; and, instead of three days in the year, appointed five days of
initiation, in each month.

From the time that the rites were thus made common, and men were
intermixed with women, and the licentious freedom of the night was
added, there was nothing wicked, nothing flagitious, that had not been
practiced among them. There were more frequent pollution of men with
each other than with women. If any were less patient in submitting to
dishonor, or more averse to the commission of vice, they were
sacrificed as victims. To think nothing unlawful was the grand maxim
of their religion. The men, as if bereft of reason, uttered
predictions, with frantic contortions of their bodies; the women, in
the habit of Bacchantes, with their hair disheveled, and carrying
blazing torches, ran down to the Tiber; where, dipping their torches
in the water, they drew them up again with the flame unextinguished,
being composed of native sulphur and charcoal. They said that those
men were carried off by the gods, whom the machines laid hold of and
dragged from their view into secret caves. These were such as refused
to take the oath of the society, or to associate in their crimes, or
to submit to defilement. This number was exceedingly great now, almost
a second state in themselves, and among them were many men and women
of noble families. During the last two years it had been a rule, that
no person above the age of twenty should be initiated; for they sought
for people of such age as made them more liable to suffer deception
and personal abuse.'" - Livy, History of Rome 39.8-16 [ed.]


"The consuls Quintus Marcius son of Lucius and Spurius Postumius son
of Lucius consulted the senate on the Nones of October in the Temple
of Bellona. Present at the writing of the decree were Marcus Claudius
son of Marcus, Lucius Valerius son of Publius, and Quintus Minucius
son of Gaius. Concerning the rites of Bacchus among the federated
peoples they decreed that the following edict be made:

'Let none of them be minded to have a shrine of Bacchus. If there are
any who say that they must needs have a shrine of Bacchus, they must
come to the Urban Praetor at Rome and, when their case has been heard,
our senate must make a decision on this, provided that not fewer than
one hundred senators were present when the matter was discussed. Let
no man, whether Roman citizen or Latin ally or other ally, be minded
to go to a meeting of Bacchantes, unless they have gone to the Urban
Praetor and he has authorised it in accordance with a decision of the
senate, provided that not fewer than one hundred senators were present
when the matter was discussed.'

They decreed:

'Let no man be a priest. Let no-one, man or woman, be a master. Let
none of them be minded to keep a common fund. Let no-one be minded to
make any man or woman an official or a temporary official. Henceforth
let no-one be minded to conspire, collude, plot or make vows in common
among themselves or to pledge loyalty to each other. Let none of them
be minded to hold sacred rites in secret. Let none of them be minded
to hold sacred rites in public or in private or outside the city,
unless they have gone to the Urban Praetor and he has authorised it in
accordance with a decision of the senate, provided that not more than
one hundred senators were present when the matter was discussed.'

They decreed:

'Let no group of more than five people in all, counting both men and
women, be minded to hold sacred rites; and let no more than two men or
three women be minded to be present, unless authorised by the Urban
Praetor and the senate as above.'

You are to publicize these decrees at a public meeting over a period
of not less than three market days, and you must keep in mind the
decree of the senate, which was as follows: 'If there are any who
transgress against the decrees set out above, a capital charge is to
be brought against them'. You are to engrave this on a bronze tablet
(this also the senate decreed) and are to give orders that it be set
it up where it can most easily be read. And you are to see to it that
such shrines of Bacchus as now exist (if any) are disbanded in
accordance with the above decree within ten days from the time when
you receive these tablets, unless they contain any genuinely sacred
thing. In the territory of the Teuri." - SENATUS CONSULTUM DE
BACCANALIBUS, 186 BC

Today was the celebration of the Bacchanalia until outlawed by the
Senate. The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman
god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria
(c. 200 BC), the Bacchanalia were originally held in secret and
attended by women only. The festivals occurred on three days of the
year in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill. Later, admission
to the rites was extended to men and celebrations took place five
times a month. According to Livy, the extension happened in an era
when the leader of the Bacchus cult was Paculla Annia - though it is
now believed that some men had participated before that.

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims
indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its
nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate — the
so-called Senatus consultum de Baccanalibus, inscribed on a bronze
tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy (AD 1640), now at the
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna — by which the Bacchanalia were
prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which
must be approved specifically by the Senate. In spite of the severe
punishment inflicted on those found in violation of this decree (Livy
claims there were more executions than imprisonment), the Bacchanalia
survived in Southern Italy long past the repression.

Valete bene!

Cato

Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem III Nones Octobris; haec dies comitialis est.

"M. Fabius Dorsuo and Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus were the next consuls.
A sudden raid by the Auruncans led to a war with that people. Fears
were entertained that more than one city was concerned in this, that
in fact it had been planned by the entire Latin League. To meet all
Latium in arms L. Furius Camillus was nominated Dictator; he appointed
Cnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Master of the Horse. As usual in great and
sudden alarms a suspension of all business was proclaimed and the
enlistment was made without any claims to exemption being allowed;
when it was completed the legions were marched as rapidly as possible
against the Auruncans. They showed the temper of marauders rather than
of soldiers, and the war was finished in the very first battle. But as
they had begun the war without any provocation and had shown no
reluctance to accept battle, the Dictator thought it his duty to
secure the help of the gods, and during the actual fighting he vowed a
temple to Juno Moneta. On his victorious return to Rome, he resigned
his Dictatorship to discharge his vow. The senate ordered two
commissioners to be appointed to carry out the construction of that
temple in a style commensurate with the greatness of the Roman people,
and a site was marked out in the Citadel where the house of M. Manlius
Capitolinus had stood. The consuls employed the Dictator's army in
war with the Volscians and took from them by a coup-de-main the city
of Sora.

The temple of Moneta was dedicated in the following year, when C.
Marcius Rutilus was consul for the third time and T. Manlius Torquatus
for the second. A portent followed close on the dedication similar to
the old portent on the Alban Mount; a shower of stones fell and night
seemed to stretch its curtain over the day. The citizens were filled
with dread at this supernatural occurrence, and after the Sibylline
Books had been consulted the senate decided upon the appointment of a
Dictator to arrange the ceremonial observances for the ap- pointed
days. P. Valerius Publicola was nominated and Q. Fabius Ambustus was
appointed Master of the Horse. It was arranged that not only the Roman
tribes but also the neighbour- ing populations should take part in the
public intercessions, and the order of the days which each was to
observe was definitely laid down. There were prosecutions this year
of moneylenders by the aediles, and heavy sentences are stated to have
been passed on them by the people. For some reason, which is not
recorded, matters reverted to an interregnum. As, however, it ended in
the election of two patrician consuls, this would appear to be the
reason why it was resorted to. The new consuls were M. Valerius Corvus
(for the third time) and A. Cornelius Cossus." - Livy, History of Rome
7.28


On this day the rite of mundus (Mania) was performed, in which an
effigy representing the sky was placed upside down in a pit and and
covered with a large stone called the lapis manalis. Three times a
year, including today, the stone was removed to alow the spirits of
the underworld access to the upper regions of the earth.

In Roman mythology, it was believed that the entrances to the
afterworld were also very real locations, called the Mundus, and the
one in Rome was called the mundus Cereris (the exact location is no
longer known). This was a pit, which was capped off by a stone called
the Lapis Manalis except on three days of ill omen (August 24th,
October 5th, and November 8th). On these days, the lid was lifted to
expose the ostium orci, the Gate to Hades, and to release the manes,
spirits of the Roman dead. The collective di manes (divine dead) were
considered potent spirits that needed appeasing, and additional
holidays throughout the year were celebrated to appease them, usually
on odd numbered days of ill luck. Mania was the goddess of the
underworld, mother or caretaker to the lesser deities of the lares.
She was also revered on May 11th during this period, during which time
charms called mania (plural maniae) were placed on the doors of houses
(as a ward, perhaps) against this goddess, who had the characteristics
of a "boogey-man" in Roman lore.

Valete bene!

Cato

It's Census time in Nova Roma, and if you want to remain a Roman citizen of Nova Roma, you must send an e-mail to the Censorial Office with your Roman name and with information about any change in your email address, phone number or postal address.
 
Send it to the following e-mail address: novaromacensus@...

ATTENTION: if you don't register on the Census BEFORE 13 OCTOBER, you lose your citizenship.


http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Census_MMDCCLXIV


Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, scriba
CENSORIAL OFFICE
Nova Roma

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http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/la

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Gratias for the info.


Vale,

D. Mento

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Salvete!

I have used and enjoyed Gutenberg.org for many years, but thank you for reminding me that I can get books in languages other than my own!

Valete!
C. Maria Caeca

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Cn. Lentulus legatus pro praetore Pannoniae Quiritibus SPD
 
[MAGYARUL IS OLVASHATÓ LEJJEBB]
 
I am proud to announce that Nova Roma Pannonia has a Roman Camp at Rosalló this weekend, when we will found a new local group of Nova Roma, Burgus Rostallo and the Regio Rostallonensis containing Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary.
 
The new burgus and the Regio will be installed and consecrated by proper religious sollemnities and ceremonies, as a 3 three days fest in the mountain area of the localty Rostalló. (Just a memo that this is the sam Rostalló where the NR summer camp was held this year and last year.) 
 
 
MAGYARUL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Kedves polgártársak, büszkén jelentem, hogyezen a hétvégén egy új helyi szerveztét alapítjuk meg Nova Romának, burgus Rostallót, és Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyéből Regio Rostallonensist, melynek neve még nem biztos, hogy végleges. A rostallói hegyi római hegyi táborunk e hétvégén burgusi rangra emelkedik három napig tartó ünnepélyes keretek között, rengeteg római programmal és vidámsággal.
 
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Vivat Nova Roma!
 
CN CORNELIVS LENTVLVS PONTIFEX
LEG PR PR PANNONIAE


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Congratulations!

Tiberius Marcius Quadra


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From: Cn. Cornelius Lentulus <cn_corn_lent@...>
To: Nova Roma ML <nova-roma@yahoogroups.com>; Forum Hospitum <nova_roma_@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: NR_Pannonia <nr_pannonia@yahoogroups.com>; NR_EuropaOrientalis <nr_europaorientalis@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 6:06 PM
Subject: [Nova-Roma] NR Event: Founding a new local Regio of Nova Roma


 
Cn. Lentulus legatus pro praetore Pannoniae Quiritibus SPD
 
[MAGYARUL IS OLVASHATÓ LEJJEBB]
 
I am proud to announce that Nova Roma Pannonia has a Roman Camp at Rosalló this weekend, when we will found a new local group of Nova Roma, Burgus Rostallo and the Regio Rostallonensis containing Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary.
 
The new burgus and the Regio will be installed and consecrated by proper religious sollemnities and ceremonies, as a 3 three days fest in the mountain area of the localty Rostalló. (Just a memo that this is the sam Rostalló where the NR summer camp was held this year and last year.) 
 
 
MAGYARUL ----------------------------------------------------------
 
Kedves polgártársak, büszkén jelentem, hogyezen a hétvégén egy új helyi szerveztét alapítjuk meg Nova Romának, burgus Rostallót, és Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyéből Regio Rostallonensist, melynek neve még nem biztos, hogy végleges. A rostallói hegyi római hegyi táborunk e hétvégén burgusi rangra emelkedik három napig tartó ünnepélyes keretek között, rengeteg római programmal és vidámsággal.
 
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Vivat Nova Roma!
 
CN CORNELIVS LENTVLVS PONTIFEX
LEG PR PR PANNONIAE

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Salvete omnes!

Sorry it has been so long, but I'm back with the next installment of the
Roman Virtues Project! The next virtue up on the list is *Frugalitas. *
*
*
Our website defines *Frugalitas *thus: "Frugalness" Economy and simplicity
of style, without being miserly.

The *Oxford Latin Dictionary *says that *Frugalitas *is: "Steadiness of
life, sober habits, temperance, self-restraint, etc."

Is this a Roman virtue? Of course, any serious student of the Classics soon
discovers that it is, despite the popular misconception that Roman culture
was about excess and overindulgence (I'm not quite sure where this comes
from. Mistaking the lifestyles of the emperors for normal Roman behavior?
Later Christian misrepresentation of pagan lifestyles? Whatever the cause,
the myth of Roman excess is fairly widespread. There are lots of otherwise
well-educated people that are unaware that a "vomitorium" was an exit
passageway from the Colosseum, not a "place to vomit up what one has eaten
in order to keep eating"). Yes, throughout the Republic, certainly, we know
that restraint and frugality were admired by the Romans as a great virtue.

How do we attempt to incorporate *Frugalitas *into our modern *Romanitas? *Who
are the great exemplars of *Frugalitas, *both ancient and modern? I'm
looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

Valete!


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EDICTUM XVII. LEGATI PRO PRAETORE PANNONIAE


Edictum XVII. Legati Pro Praetore Cn. Cornelii Lentuli de
burgo Rostallone condendo

Edictum XVII. of Legatus Pro Praetore Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus about
founding burgus Rostall


I. Foundation of burgus Rostallo

I.A. I hereby establish and found burgus Rostallo of Nova Roma as the permanent station of the Cohors VI Carpathica and its civilian attendance. Burgus Rostallo shall be the Nova Roman Pannonian local community of citizens focusing on Roman military reenactment at the area known for the Hungarians as Rostalló.

I.B. The definition of this local community is "burgus", which indicates its primary nature as a reenactor military station of the Cohors VI Carpathica with civilian presence, but with the intention of development into a colonia or municipium in the future.

I.C. This edictum, by establishing a burgus, does not intend to interfere with the lex Fabia de oppidis et municipiis, and does not claim any rights or privilages for the citizens of this burgus other than their basic civil right to assemble and form any private groups with internal rules.


II. Residentship

II.A. Permanent residentship in burgus Rostallo is automativally given to all reenactor soldiers of the Cohors VI Carpathica who are Nova Roman citizens.

II.B. Permanent residentship in burgus Rostallo is open upon request to Nova Roman citizens living within 50 km distance from Rostalló.

II.C. Temporary burgus residentship is automativally given to any Nova Roman citizen who is being stationed in the area of Rostalló for the duration of time while he is stationed in the burgus.


III. Administration

III.A. The commander and head of the burgus is the Praefectus Cohortis VI Carpathicae.

III.B. The Praefectus is the sole final decion maker and he is responsible for everything within the burgus.

III.C. The Praefectus can appoint any number of military or civilian officers that he deems necessary to the administration and management of the burgus, but the titles of the appointees must be approved by the Legatus Pro Praetore.

IV. This Edictum becomes effective immediately.


Given the 8th of October, 2764 AUC.

Datum a.d. VIII Id. Oct. P. Ullerio Stephano Venatore C. Equitio Catone consulibus anno MMDCCLXIV AUC.




Cn. Cornelius Lentulus
LEGATUS PRO PRAETORE
PANNONIAE PROVINCIAE



 

EDICTUM XVIII. LEGATI PRO PRAETORE PANNONIAE


Edictum XVIII. Legati Pro Praetore Cn. Cornelii Lentuli de
Regione Rostallonensi creando

Edictum XVIII. of Legatus Pro Praetore Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus about
creating Regio Rostallonensis


I. I hereby establish and create Regio Rostallonensis as an administrative subdivision of Provincia Pannonia, consisting the area and of the Nova Roman citizens of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary, and centered around the Nova Roman burgus Rostallo.

II. The Regio shall be governed by the Praefectus Regionis, appointed by the Governor.

III. This Edictum becomes effective immediately.


Given the 8th of October, 2764 AUC.

Datum a.d. VIII Id. Oct. P. Ullerio Stephano Venatore C. Equitio Catone consulibus anno MMDCCLXIV AUC.




Cn. Cornelius Lentulus
LEGATUS PRO PRAETORE
PANNONIAE PROVINCIAE

EDICTUM XIX. LEGATI PRO PRAETORE PANNONIAE


Edictum XIX. Legati Pro Praetore Cn. Cornelii Lentuli de
Praefecto Legati Pro Praetore nominando

Edictum XIX. of Legatus Pro Praetore Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus about appointment of Praefectus Leg. Pr. Pr.


I. I hereby appoint Gaius Villius Vulso to the rank of Praefectus Legati Pro Praetore to fulfill the following functions:

I.1. Personal Representative of the Governor in Regio Rostallonensis (the area of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary);

I.2. Praefectus Regionis Rostallonsis: Superior of the administration of Regio Rostallonensis (the area of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary);

I.3. Praefectus Cohortis VI Carpathicae: Commander of Cohors VI Carpathica, stationed in his assigned Regio.



II. Special Obligations:


II.A. Personal Representative of the Governor in Regio Rostallonensis (the area of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary);

II.A.1. Representation of the Legatus Pro Praetore in any case when there is an occasion to promote the Nova Roman province of Pannonia in Regio Rostallonensis (the area of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary). In this role, he has right to act in the name of the Legatus Pro Praetore, but cannot make any governmental decision without the authorization of the Legatus Pro Praetore. For the sake of these duties quick accessibility on internet, by phone, and if necessary, personal presence are a high requirement.

II.A.2. Representation of the Legatus Pro Praetore in Regio Rostallonensis in special cases when it is ordered by the Legatus Pro Praetore. In this role, he has the right to act in the name of the Legatus Pro Praetore, and can make governmental decisions independently, but only in that special matter to which he has given this authorization from the Legatus Pro Praetore.


II.B. Superior of the administration of Regio Rostallonensis (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County of Hungary)

II.B.1. Representation of the Legatus Pro Praetore in Regio Rostallonensis;

II.B.2. Control of the Regio Rostallonensis, representation and administration of the Nova Roman citizens of this Regio;

II.B.3. Supervision and coordination of the officers appointed in the territory of Regio Rostallonensis;

II.B.4. Execution of any orders concerning the administration of Regio Rostallonensis given by the Legatus Pro Praetore.


II.C. Commander of Cohors VI Carpathica, stationed in his assigned Regio.

II.C.1. He shall lead and manage the Cohors VI Carpathica as his military unit with full power, responsibility and independence.

II.C.2. He shall report about his and his cohors' activities to the Legatus Pro Praetore.

II.C.3. He can appoint the subordinate officers of the cohors, but it is recommended to request their appointment from the Legatus Pro Praetore, or, at least to discuss it before making a decision about appointments or promotions.



III. General Obligations:


III.A. Regular accessibility on internet, (or, if the situation requires, by phone). For the sake of this cause, to answer the e-mails, weekly at least.

III.B. In so far as the weekly accessibility cannot be warranted, to inform the Legatus Pro Praetore in a privat message or on the Provincial Mailinglist about the date of the absence.



IV. This Edictum becomes effective immediately.



Given the 7th of October, 2764 AUC.

Datum Non. Oct. P. Ullerio Stephano Venatore C. Equitio Catone consulibus anno MMDCCLXIV AUC.




Cn. Cornelius Lentulus
LEGATUS PRO PRAETORE
PANNONIAE PROVINCIAE

Salvete!

I wish bonam fortunam to this new endeavor, and I *know* it will accomplish grand and wonderful things!

Valete bene,
C. Maria Caeca

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>
> A. Tullia Scholastica C. Mariae Caecae quiritibus, tironibus, peregrinis
> sociisque bonae voluntatis S.P.D.
>
>
>
> Salvete Omnes!
>
> ... they eat! Especially if they have a resident French chef!
>
> ATS: That they do! Our French (and other) chefs did a great job!
>
>
> They also
> laugh (a lot!), and talk, and honor our gods, and do all manner of wonderful
> things, some planned, some on the spur of the moment.
>
> I met 3 very dear friends in Nashville, and had a wonderful week of serious
> play, delicious food, and just plain fun! We decided to rent a home which
> is used for vacation rentals, and it was an excellent move. The house was
> very comfortable, and lent itself nicely to being lived in. It meant that
> we had more time together, didn't need to worry about motels, got to do our
> own cooking (grand fun!), got to curl up and relax in the living room, and
> be what we essentially are ...an extended family.
>
> We also took road trips. Of special note was the trip to Chattanooga, to
> see the aquarium, where, among other things, I got to pet a snake,
>
> ATS: And shall we tell them how popular you were with the butterflies and
> seahorses? ;-)
>
> and to
> the Nashville International festival, where we ...um, yes ...ate even more,
> watched dancing from several cultures,
>
> ATS: Notably Thai, or Indonesian at any rate...plus Petronius and I had a
> chat with the Alliance Française, and Petronius, my student from last year¹s
> Sermo Combined class, Eugenius, now a Latin teacher, and I practiced our Latin
> conversation skills for several hours.
>
>
> and played in the sunshine for a
> lovely afternoon. We spent a fair amount of time in the Nashville
> Parthenon, too, and got to see some of Nashville's lovely neoclassical
> architecture. BTW, Latin lessons and breakfast do go well together ...after
> at least 2 cups of coffee, that is.
>
> ATS: LOL!
>
> In short, I had a great time, and
> could wish to be back in my spot on the couch, working on a scarf while
> watching TV, peppered liberally with commentary in a polyglot of languages,
> English, Latin, French, and just for fun, a bit of German and Spanish!
> Trust me, Nashville will *never* be the same!
>
> Oh, yes, and there will be pictures, soon!
>
> ATS: I hope so; Julia should return from acting as tour guide for
> Petronius and his visit to DC and NYC soon, and should have lots of them on
> her camera or whatever.
>
> Valete bene!
> C. Maria Caeca, exhausted, but happy, with a heart warmed by the kindness
> and friendship of 3 very, very fine people.
>
> ATS: We all enjoyed our meeting! Vivant amicitiae Quiritium et
> Latineloquentium!
>
> Valéte!
>

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Salvete omnes!

First, I am happy to see our newer members participating in this topic. I'd love to hear from more (well, all, smile) of you, since the only way I can get to know you is through your posts, and I would like to do that.

I would like to toss a few thoughts into the mix, if I may. We think of frugality in terms of conservative action, in spending money, especially, but as was pointed out excellently, in other things as well. I was thinking, though, that it isn't so much not doing something as doing things in a wise way. Sometimes frugality might, in fact, involve spending more money or effort, but for a purpose. If, for example, I wanted to buy a computer, and if the most reliable, most well built computer cost more than a cheaper but less reliable one that I *knew* would have a much shorter shelf life, I would go for the more expensive model, and, in doing so, both use my resources wisely, and conserve them, because I wouldn't have to buy another in a short time. Frugality is, I think, more an attitude, which initiates certain ways of thinking, and certain actions. Of course, that can be said of all the virtues, and the more we think about them, read what the ancients said about them, and make them an integral part of our personalities, the more likely we will be to demonstrate them, eventually spontaneously.

Vale quam optime!
C. Maria Caeca

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FYI




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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 09:17:25 -0400
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Wesley Smith,, Joanne Conman,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence of a 400 000 b.p. (!)'production line' of stone tools at
Qesem Cave (israel):

http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/Article.aspx?id=240535
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=240452
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=33400

Burial of three paleolithic dogs, one with a mammoth bone
in its mouth, from the Czech Republic:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44819678/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on Neanderthals having a good diet:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44752400/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Review of Dean Falk, *The Fossil Chronicles*:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/evolutionary-clues-from-ancestors-brains-1.html
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AFRICA
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African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter (September 2011):

http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0911/news0911.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A mummy coffin in the Torquay Museum turns out to be 3500
years old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2046440/Sarcophagus-lay-years-seaside-museum-owners-realised-3-500-years-old.html
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Coffin-reveals-secret-past-mummified-royal-boy/story-13481724-detail/story.html

New suggestion that those 'temples' at Goblekli aren't actually
temples at all:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006162535.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/07/Use-of-ancient-buildings-in-Turkey-debated/UPI-21261318031564/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/worlds-oldest-temples-were-houses-men-not-gods-115942076.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-archaeologist-world-oldest-temples.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uocp-aaw100611.php

Again, we're hearing of plans to dig at Carcemish, once they clear the
landmines
(I think they're done?):

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-258491-excavation-of-historic-city-of-karkamis-slated-to-begin-as-mine-removal-ends.html

Bronze Age dwellings from Jerusalems 'Holyland Hill':

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/dig-at-jerusalem-s-infamous-holyland-hill-uncovers-bronze-age-dwellings-1.387977

This should probably be a crime story, but excavation equipment was
found in the White Desert Natural Reserve:

http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=345936

There's a new head of the SCA (can't remember if we had this last
week):

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/28928/a-new-secretary-for-egyptian-supreme-council-of-antiquities/

Meanwhile, despite the appointment of a new head of antiquities,
archaeological work is still at a standtill (there's all sorts of tidbits
in this one):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1067/eg14.htm

... and elsewhere, we're getting reports that the temple of Amenhotep III
was flooded:

http://www.kv64.info/2011/10/temple-of-amenhotep-iii-flooded.html

What Donald Redford is up to:

http://dnj.com/article/20111003/NEWS01/110030313/1002/rss

The online version of the Dead Sea Scrolls is proving to be a popular
destination:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/virtual-dead-sea-scrolls-get-more-than-a-million-hits-in-just-one-week-1.387769

... if you haven't checked it out:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

Somewhat rambling feature on assorted powers in the Ancient Near East:

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8715.0.139.0

Italy is going to help train Iraqi archaeologists and fix up the National
Museum:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2011-09-30\kurd.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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6th century B.C. tombs from Kozani:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/48748

Looking for a Roman road in Stirling:

http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirling/2011/10/05/archaeology-works-start-at-heritage-centre-site-51226-29536401/

... and at Sandford Heath (I think this is different from the previous):

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9285882.Dig_hopes_to_answer_Roman_Road_riddle/

TV hype for a digital recreation of Pavlopetri:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15191614
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111008130348.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greek-city-digitally-recreated-2367183.html

Apparently some folks didn't realize Putin's Black Sea
archaeological 'discovery' was fake?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045848/Vladimir-Putins-Black-Sea-scuba-diving-treasure-stunt.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/spokesman-putins-scuba-dive-treasure-was-staged/2011/10/06/gIQATPsmPL_video.html
http://www.telegram.com/article/20111006/DIGESTS/110069529/1052/RSS01&source=rss
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/video-putins-dive-treasure-find-was-staged/article2192681/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2192681
http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_19049716?source=rss
http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/604697--putin-s-discovery-of-ancient-deep-sea-treasure-was-staged
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Putin39s-setup-ancient-jug-find.6848421.jp
http://www.smh.com.au/world/putin-treasure-dive-staged-says-chief-spokesman-20111006-1la8s.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/vladimir-putin-spokesman-urns-staged?newsfeed=true

More details about that Dionysus mosaic from Bulgaria that we mentioned
a few weeks ago (I think):

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f2664

Interesting burial of humans and livestock in northern Greece:

http://straitstimes.com.feedsportal.com/c/32792/f/524622/s/191caf50/l/0L0Sstraitstimes0N0CBreakingNews0CTechandScience0CStory0CSTIStory0I720A9250Bhtml/story01.htm

Semi-touristy thing on Vindolanda:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-writing-competition/8812940/Just-back-ordinary-treasures-in-Englands-Pompeii.html

Facebook's version of the Rise and Fall of the Roman empire:

http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6546880/facebook-news-feed-history-of-the-world-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire

Michael MacKinnon talks about 'Animals in the Agora':

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/videocast-animals-in-the-agora/

What Garret Fagan is up to:

http://www.al.com/samford-crimson/index.ssf/2011/10/davis_lecture_to_host_dr_garre.html

What Elizabeth Greene is up to:

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2011/October/uncovering_family_ties_across_the_ages.html

Lewis Lapham talks with James Romm:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/elephants-trampled-losers-in-battle-for-alexander-s-throne-lewis-lapham.html

A Classics student does the math:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/indialenon/100109604/why-tuition-fees-are-terrible-news-for-the-humanities/

Reviews of *The Swerve*:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2016424842_br07swerve.html
http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/10/04/the-swerve/

Review of *Song of Achilles*:

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=155028
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern-by-stephen-greenblatt/article2194842/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2016424842_br07swerve.html

More lost legion nonsense:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201110/03/t20111003_22736853.shtml
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/02/c_131172311.htm

Latest reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A prehistoric teen girl burial near a newly-found henge in Kent:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806944/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.discovery.com/history/perhistoric-teen-grave-henge-111006.html

A 2000 years b.p. salting site from Willow Tree Fen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-15168543

A 1900 years b.p. hunting 'coat' from a melting glacier in Norway:

http://www.norwaypost.no/culture/melting-glaciers-reveal-ancient-artifacts-25795-25795.html

A number of Anglo-Saxon skeletons found last year in Oxfordshire
were reinterred:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15228557

A Pictish symbol stone from a Highland farm building:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14881753

The petroglyphs at Altamira apparently continue to be at risk:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808221/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Possible mass grave on the Batle of Shrewsbury site:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/10/05/another-mass-grave-under-shrewsbury-incinerator-site/

They're digging test pits at Bannockburn:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/war+%26+conflict/pre-20th+century+conflict/art365372

Newstead Abbey is now on the threatened list:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-15184025

Assorted Byzantine and Venetian fortresses in Greece are at risk too:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/05/historic-byzantine-and-venetian-fortresses-at-risk/

A number of WWI artifacts are turning up at Gallipoli:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uom-hou100411.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-hundreds-undiscovered-artefacts-gallipoli.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112395726/world-war-artifacts-uncovered-at-gallipoli/index.html

Latest facial reconstruction is on a former Archibishop of Canterbury who
was
beheaded:

http://news.discovery.com/history/reconstructed-face-of-simon-of-sudbury-111003.html

Funding for Newcastle's Black Gate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15173660

More on those 'kiddie petroglyphs' at Rouffignac:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-archaeologists-uncover-prehistoric-pre-school-video.html

More on those Nevern Castle warding-off-evil inscriptions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15153026

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Paleolithic weapons from Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/10/03/news11.asp

Studying a vanished city on the Silk Road:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/04/Vanished-Silk-Road-city-studied-in-China/UPI-78801317774638/

The Taj Mahal is not on the verge of collapsing:

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/oct/081011-Agra-Taj-is-safe-experts.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/07/could-taj-mahal-collapse-in-2-years/

Floods are threatening the ancient city of Ayutthaya:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44772469/ns/weather/
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Thailand-Flooding-Threatens-World-Heritage-Site--131329414.html

The Makli necropolis may be pur on the endangered list too:

http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=102601&heading=Pakistan

Radio feature on Aboriginal astronomy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00kdr09/Discovery_Aboriginal_Astronomy/
cf: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15098959

... and I think we've had some version of this Aborigines-reached-Asia-first
story:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110930190112174

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible skeletal remains from the Battle of the Plains of Abraham:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Possible+remains+unearthed+from+1759+battle+Plains+Abraham/5514166/story.html

Latest on at Zekiah Fort find in Maryland:

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20111005/UNKNOWN/710059729/1059/archaeologists-find-so-md-holy-grail&template=southernMaryland

Hampton taverns were pretty high class a couple centuries or so ago:

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/hampton/old-hampton-taverns-served-the-elite

Environmental effects of tar on Chumash people heads over time?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111006-tar-toxic-pollution-chumash-health-indians-science-heads/

They're back poking around the Queen Anne's Revenge site:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/expedition-starts-nc-site-blackbeards-ship-14668619
http://www.jdnews.com/articles/carteret-95774-county-expedition.html

Restoring the Park Avenue Armory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/arts/design/park-avenue-armory-to-get-swiss-makeover.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A round Aztec ceremonial platform found at the Templo
Mayor in Mexico City:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/researchers-find-aztec-temple-platform-mexico
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/06/501364/main20117008.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/aztec-temple-mexico-city_n_999145.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/17-arqueologia/5279-descubren-plataforma-de-la-antigua-tenochtitlan
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=14686834
Inca 'takeovers' were usually peaceful, apparently:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335022/description/Inca_takeovers_not_usually_hostile

During restoration of a Mayan mural, some previously hidden figures emerged:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=430173&CategoryId=13003

A 1400 years b.p. village find leads to a Mayan road discovery:

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_19049230?source=rss
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoca-ctd100511.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112396418/ancient-mayan-road-buried-by-volcanic-ash-1400-years-ago/index.html
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19059963
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19054421
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-team-ancient-road-maya-village.html

Archaeologists have found remains of what may have been
the first Catholic church in Peru:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/ruins-may-be-first-roman-catholic-church-peru
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/archaeologists-think-they-uncovered-ruins-of-first-roman-catholic-church-built-in-peru/2011/10/07/gIQAJvOvTL_story.html

Trying to figure out obsidian beads from Teotihuacan:

http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_20ad0fa6-ed89-11e0-967c-001cc4c03286.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Archaeo News 200:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/podcast-200

Chinese researchers are suggesting climate change is behind much
'human crisis' in the past:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-chinese-early-climate-responsible-human.html

A missing medieval Spanish document turns up in a UVa library:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-wm-professor-chronicles-history-year-old.html

CNN had a feature on archaeology of 'garbage/trash' sites of various
periods:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/archaeology-ancient-trash/

Interesting use of drones to help map burial mounds in Russia:

http://www.livescience.com/16443-micro-drone-archaeology-burial-sites.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/07/Tiny-drones-used-in-archaeology/UPI-28551318032850/

Nice feature (with photos) on underwater archaeology photography by Wes
Skiles:

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/wes-skiles-photography/

Two (different) 'course description' type stories focussing on the
'marriage' of science and the humanities:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct11/RiceCourse.html
http://www.whitman.edu/content/news/classicsfrontier

Richard Hodges gave a talk on matters relating to the Holy Grail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBb5CnQWyk&feature=uploademail

Suggestion that Archaeology degrees need some updating:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417632

On the DNA front, they've traced a type of anemia back to southern Italy,
some 3000 years b.p.:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-tracks-mutations-cda-ii-roman.html

Just so you know it's coming ... some guy has found a 'hidden code' in the
"Last Supper":

http://news.yahoo.com/real-life-da-vinci-code-found-hidden-last-134209947.html

This one touches on a pile of our categories ... all about how a 'Frenchman
helped
invent the English garden':

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100056700/how-a-frenchman-helped-invent-the-english-garden/

The World Monuments Fund's list of at-risk sites has come out:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-world-monuments-idUSTRE7944C420111005
http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/u-k-bus-depot-greek-graves-among-monument-funds-at-risk-sites/40687?sid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en

Review of Steven Pinker, *The Better Angels of Our Nature*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-by-steven-pinker-book-review.html

Review of Sylvia Nasar, *Grand Pursuit*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/books/review/grand-pursuit-by-sylvia-nasar-book-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Nazareth:

http://israel21c.org/travel/rediscovering-nazareth

Greece/Athens:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/196470/where-mythical-creatures-nature-come.html

Lesser-known citys of the ancient world:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/of-goddesses-and-empire-20111006-1lbbi.html
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/of-goddesses-and-empire-20111006-1lbbi.html

Morocco:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/07/travel/destination-adventure-morocco/index.html?section=cnn_latest
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/================================================================
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Plenty of press coverage for yet another bust in Thessaloniki:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808667/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/greek-authorities-seize-smuggled-antiquities/#.TpF2jXK3N2I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15214974
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/10/2011_409792
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/07/priceless-antiquities-seized-from-smugglers-in-thessaloniki/
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/07/Smuggled-antiquities-recovered-in-Greece/UPI-82911318015070/
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n261119
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0tmwOiTlWOspC9bBVApvgZCxrEg?docId=b6971fe679c64c099eb2f23ea0a978d2

A number of Bibles from various places around the world were 'rescued' and
returned to Israel:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4131254,00.html

The Saudis have recovered a number of Mousterian artifacts taken
by a British national:

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20111005109989

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Iron Age gold coins from Kimbolton:

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/latest-news/iron_age_gold_coins_discovered_in_kimbolton_1_1081859

Latest e-Sylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n41.html

... and the one that will come out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n42.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-tale-of-math-treasure

Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50962

Warriors, Tombs, and Temples:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/-warriors-tombs-and-temples-at-the-bowers-museum.html

Cleopatra:

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/cleopatra-reigns-in-new-museum-exhibit-131230189.html

A Day in Pompeii:

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2011/10/06/go/10287813.txt
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111006/ENTERTAIN/110060302
http://museumpublicity.com/2011/10/02/museum-of-science-opens-a-day-in-pompeii-exhibition/

Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-hosts-egyptian-mummy-exhibition-20111003-1l4lm.html

Athena: Goddess of the Acropolis:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/48495

Power Play: China's Empress Dowager:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50848

Picasso's Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/design/lines-that-kept-moving-and-knew-no-boundaries.html

John Martin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/arts/01iht-melikian01.html

Rome: From the Origins to Italy's Capital:

http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2011/10/rome_comes_to_q.html

A Redcar museum is suddenly popular:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-15147976

The Greek and Roman stuff at Bonham's did quite well:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50928

... elsewhere, estimates were a bit off:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/08iht-melikian08.html

More commentary on the Met's new website:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/design/the-metropolitan-museums-new-web-site.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Tchaikovsky:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/arts/music/mariinsky-orchestra-at-carnegie-hall-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/music/carnegie-hall-opening-night-gala-music-review.html

Reviving a lost work by Beethoven:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110930185939795

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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ON THE WEB
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Digital Egypt:

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/
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OBITUARIES
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Piero Weiss:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/arts/music/piero-weiss-83-pianist-and-musicologist-dies-at-83.html
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HUMOUR
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Ancient Grammar Police:

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/10/06
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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SALVETE!

That is to announce that Nova Roma 2764 a.U.c census is oficially closed.
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,David Critchley,
Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, 'tkavanag', Feral Boy.
Edward Rockstein, Tim Parkin, Joanne Conman, Rick Heli,
Hernan Astudillo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,
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Rochelle Altman,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
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EARLY HUMANS
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Possible Neanderthal remains from Sardinia:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/ancient-human-remains-found-in-sardinia_735961.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-84644.html

On a genetic mutation and human evolution:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44849021/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-mutation-may-led-humans-rise-191203953.html

Evidence of paleolithic dog domestication:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-evidence-domestication-dogs-paleolithic-period.html

Feature on Sterkfontein Caves:

http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-10-14-sterkfontein-caves-75-years-of-discovery

More on early hominid diets:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-technologies-ideas-early-hominid-diets.html

Just in case you *must* read about some Yeti 'proof' silliness:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-siberian-region-yeti.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/scientists-found-siberian-yeti_n_1003639.html
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AFRICA
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Plenty of coverage of what is being dubbed a 100 000 years b.p.
'artist studie' in Blombos Cave:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15257259
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-year-old-ochre-toolkit-workshop-south.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/science/14paint.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/13/stone-age-painting-kits
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Ancient-art-studio-uncovered-in-SA-20111013
http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/194302a1/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cculture0Cart0Cart0Enews0C88257270CAncient0Eart0Estudio0Euncovered0Ein0ESouth0EAfrica0Bhtml/story01.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/african-cave-yields-paint-from-dawn-of-humanity/2011/10/12/gIQApyHrhL_story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/13/science-ancient-paint-shop-discovered-in-south-african-cave.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/ancient-art-studio-uncovered-in-africa-20111014-1lno7.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6053/219
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-art-supplies-found-south-african-cave-182951176.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11287/1182014-115-0.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049154/Ancient-art-materials-discovered-South-African-cave.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Second Temple miqveh found near Kibbutz Zor'a:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134818,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148686#.TpWvJOxXGZZ

Eilat Mazar is rather critical of the Elad association and IAA:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/top-archaeologist-decries-jerusalem-dig-as-unscientific-tourist-gimmick-1.389244
http://forward.com/articles/144184/

cf: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/10/11/neve-gordon/concealing-the-past/

... while archaeology is being used in Palestine's bid for statehood:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134091,00.html

Revisiting the James Ossuary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-eisenman/the-james-ossuary-is-it-a_b_1005052.html

Latest from Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/google-earth-image-of-tell/
http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/article-on-negebite-pottery-published-by-amit-dagan/

What Akkadianish things Benjamin Foster is up to:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/14/akkadian-prof-likes-his-few-exceptional-students/

Using computer algorithms to separate the multiple sources/hands in the
Torah:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ghostwriting-torah-algorithm-distinguishes-contributors.html
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=15391
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2049105/Computer-program-reveal-wrote-Bible.html

Not sure if we've had this story about efforts to save the mosaics in
Hisham's Palace:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Jan/21/Saving-the-Middle-Easts-biggest-mosaic-with-a-masterpiece.ashx

Some groups are still protesting outside the Supreme Council of Antiquities:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/23704/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Temporary-staff-of-Supreme-Council-of-Antiquities-.aspx

... and Egypt may have asked for the Rosetta Stone back (but it doesn't seem
to
be 'in all the papers'):

http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=346507

More on Gobleki Tepe:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51115
http://www.canada.com/Gobekli+world+oldest+temple+just+tricked+Stone+condo/5528342/story.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/10/13/141216522/the-worlds-first-temple-or-not?ft=1&f=1057
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery-2011-10-13
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/andrew-curry-contributor.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/10/world%E2%80%99s-first-temple-possibly-just-a-stone-age-condo-canadian-scientist/

More on digitizing the DSS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBLF357soE&feature=uploademail
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/museums/dead_sea_scrolls_access_all

The Bible History Daily's Week in Review (I'm curious whether others can
click this):

http://whatcounts.com/dm?id=9115C9B7CC89FD328FB6F8F0B49401E63800056256428243

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Important study shows that amphora carried more than just wine:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dna-shows-ancient-greek-ships-carried-more-than-wine
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111014/full/news.2011.594.html

A pile of Roman shoes found at a supermarket construction site in Camelon,
Scotland:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111010-roman-empire-shoes-fort-britain-archaeology-science/

Remains of a possible Roman bath in Cumbria:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/west-cumbrian-dig-uncovers-roman-building-1.887605

For reasons unknown, that purported Lupercal find is back in the news:

http://news.discovery.com/videos/history-mythical-roman-she-wolf-cave-discovered.html

Evidence of a Roman 'presence' (of sorts) in Chennai:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennais-links-to-ancient-Rome-found/articleshow/10348895.cms

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/10/12/omg-that-purported-lupercal-find-is-back-and-i-still-dont-buy-it/

David Blank gives the New York Times a bit of a slap on the wrist:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/epicurean-fragments.html

Nice feature on a student digging at Monte Testaccio:

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83401

Oxford Greek Play 2011:

http://www.ogp2011.com/

A recreation of the Antikythera Mechanism (hmmmmm):

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/12/hublot-rebuilds-the-famed-antikythera-mechanism/

Interview with Peter Lilley about Samuel Johnson:

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-lilley-mp-on-samuel-johnson

Interview with Adrienne Mayor on enemies of Rome:

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adrienne-mayor-on-enemies-ancient-rome

Review of a couple of tomes about children in the Roman empire:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article796886.ece

Review of David Mattingly, *Imperialism, Power, and Identity*:

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/10/imperialism-power-and-identity

Review of Aloys Winterling, *Caligula*:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/12/the-most-famous-dog-in-movie-history/

Review of Paul Johnson, *Socrates*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/12/book-review-socrates/

Reviews (etc.) of *The Swerve*:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/10/stephen-greenblatt-reads-from--i-the-swerve--how-the-world-becam0
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20111012/OPINION04/710129955
http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/10/the-swerve-by-stephen-greenblatt-named-a-national-book-awards-finalist
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/epicurean-fragments.html

There are a spate of Iliad translations out being reviewed singulatim and
together:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/131321754.html
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/10/13/29038/
http://www.economist.com/node/21532253
http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_19100667

Semi-related reviewish thing of David Malouf's *Ransom*:

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/137919020/ransom
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/10/135778962/dawn-tripp-on-david-malouf-s-novel-ransom

Semi-related ... interview with Madeline Miller:

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/books/2011/10/11/q-a-with-historical-novelist-madeline-miller

More on Pavlopetri:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212386207.shtml
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111008130348.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/10/Underwater-Greek-city-brought-to-life/UPI-92701318291412/

More on the rejoined Weary Herakles:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51000

Latest reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Confirmation of a major Viking site at a County Louth village:

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Major-Viking-site-discovery-described-as-mind-blowing-131442918.html

Latest on the three stone circles at Stanton Drew:

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Stanton-Drew-8211-new-Great-Circle-entrance/story-13556812-detail/story.html

... while some idiot driver hit and broke a standing stone at Bedd Morris:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/9303748.4_000_years_of_history_crashes_to_the_ground/

They've figured out the genetic side of the Black Death:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15278366
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4755328.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-reconstruct-genome-black-death.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-death-genome
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/science/13plague.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/10/whats-next-after-sequencing-the-black-death.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/12/black-death-genome-sequenced-dna
http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-black-death-bug-hasnt-changed-170111133.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZYb2Jl22g&feature=digest_refresh_thu
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228344.800-black-deaths-origin-is-identified-at-last.html

Hot on the heels of the find of a WWII ship full of silver (which is out of
the period of our purview),
Odyssey Marine announced the discovery of a WWI shipwreck full of silver
(which is in the period of
our purview):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11shipwreck.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=103943429&date=10-10-2011&archiveAnchorId=141209082
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15252259
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8Himo43JA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/usa-britain-shipwreck-idUSN1E79911320111010
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/silver-laden-wwi-ship-found-by-underwater-salvager-odyssey.html

Feature on Nikolay Ovcharov:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=132871

More on the threat to the paintings at Altamira:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21020-ancient-cave-paintings-threatened-by-tourist-plans.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Sui and Tang Dynasty finds from Jiangxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/11/c_131185265.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90782/90874/7615525.html

Some mystery tombs along the Silk Road:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-10/12/c_131187122.htm

A Maori adze find is confirming (sort of) an oral tradition:

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/ancient-maori-tool-found-in-old-lyttleton-post-office-4459812

Archaeologists are calling for a major part of Mohenjodaro to be reburied
for preservation
purposes:

http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/16/call-for-reburial-of-ill-preserved-moenjodaro-part.html

Tantalizingly vague item on a Cimmerian necropolis find in
Kabardino-Balkaria (I'm guessing
this is in Asia, but might be wrong ... this part of the world always
challenges me from a
geographic point of view):

http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/culture/18793.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some unexpected finds from the Queen Anne's Revenge dig:

http://www.witn.com/watercooler/headlines/Expedition_Starts_At_Site_Of_Blackbeards_Ship_131124518.html

... but bad weather isn't helping that dig progress:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/12/dive-to-rescue-blackbeards-pirate-ship-hits-snag/

A pre-1820 shipwreck find in the Connecticut River:

http://www.wfsb.com/story/15698606/piece-of-ancient-marine-history-turns-up-in-conn-river

Looking for burial sites during road construction in Iowa:

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1772909.html

Feature on the Krieger site and its implications for agricultural
development:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2011/10/09/agricultures-role-in-our-societies-not-so-simple.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/start-revolution-without-me.html

Feature on the 'Cardiff Giant' hoax:

http://wrvo.org/post/remembering-cardiff-giant

Review of Jeremi Suri, *Liberty's Best Guardian*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/libertys-surest-guardian-by-jeremi-suri-book-review.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the use of neutron imaging in archaeology:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-artifacts-yield-secrets-neutron.html

Some revisionism in regards to Van Gogh's suicide:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/new-biography-argues-van-gogh-did-not-kill-himself/

Arguing over whether DaVinci painted a portrait or not:

http://www.livescience.com/16549-lost-davinci-portrait.html

... and arguing over a Girolamo Romano painting is giving rise to
fundraising:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/arts/design/for-florida-museum-dispute-over-romano-painting-is-a-boon.html

Interesting 'movement' to create 'historic' meals from old recipes:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203499704576624851086404190.html

National Book Awards finalists:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/finalists-named-for-national-book-awards/

Feature on a clairvoyant who appears to have located assorted archaeological
items,
inter alia and FWIW:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/nyregion/marinus-b-dykshoorn-psychic-is-mourned-in-bronx.html

There might be some interest in this semiotics piece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/i-was-an-under-age-semiotician.html

More on the use of a drone to map out burial mounds in Russia:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=drone-reveals-burial-sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44847461/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-drone-reveals-ancient-royal-burial-sites-130007879.html
http://www.livescience.com/16443-micro-drone-archaeology-burial-sites.html

Review of Michael Krondl, *Sweet Invention*:

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141052658/quest-for-the-holy-doughnut-and-the-first-dessert

Review of Denise Gigante, *The Keats Brothers*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-keats-brothers-by-denise-gigante-book-review.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Mosel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/8817814/Germany-walking-the-Mosel-Heights-Trail.html
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BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Thieves stole a relic from the Holy Cross Abbey in Thurles:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048625/Thieves-break-monastery-steal-ancient-relic-cross-Jesus-died.html

Libya is trying to protect its sites from looters:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa/libya-benghazi-theft/index.html

Iraq is still missing "thousands" of antiquities:

http://www.thenational.ae/business/travel-tourism/iraq-wants-its-heritage-returned

A pair of Egyptian reliefs stolen in the 80s were recovered:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/24162/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Two-reliefs-stolen-from-Hetepka-tomb-found.aspx

A Jules Breton painting missing for over 90 years was returned to France:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/stolen-masterpiece-discovered/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

Safe Corner:

http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest E-Sylum newsletter:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n42.html

... and the one which will be out later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n43.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Tut:

http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-14-11-00-00-king-tut-shines-at-mfah/
http://www.chron.com/life/article/Tut-exhibit-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-MFAH-s-2217917.php
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Tut-artifacts-tour-perhaps-for-the-last-time-2217892.php

Archimedes Palimpsest:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-archimedes-palimpsest-pg,0,6412718.photogallery
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-archimedes-palimpsest-20111014,0,3593057.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/walters-art-museums-manuscript-project-restores-the-voice-of-the-great-mathematician-archimedes/2011/10/12/gIQAsfI1jL_story.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576608960149816094.html
http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x1611323592/Pompeii-new-exhibit-at-the-Museum-of-Science-is-a-poignant-trip-back-to-79-A-D

Georges Braque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/georges-braque-pioneer-of-modernism-review.html

Pompeii:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/newenglandarts/museums/x765170634/Pompeii-exhibit-Blasted-into-eternity-with-video

Alexander the Great:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/10/alexander-the-great-goes-to-france/

Syrian Bibles:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iADaW_NIYgJYFKcgoMowMXc1lg8Q?docId=426e5785999441b2bc27bd855410a9a1

Lippi and Botticelli:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNGLIA8gmtA&feature=uploademail

The new National Hellenic Museum looks like it might be worth a visit:

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/8176696-421/gods-myths-and-mortals-to-debut-in-chicagos-new-museum.html

The first map of Australia is coming to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8824477/Worlds-first-map-of-Australia-goes-on-sale.html

A bit out of our period of purview, but of interest ... a letter of Albert
Einstein fetched a reasonable price:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15278482

An account of the Art & Design London show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/arts/15iht-Melikian15.html

The Musee d'Orsay is reopening aftern remodelling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/arts/15iht-Orsay15.html

The MoMA's annual 'To Save and Protect' festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/arts/design/to-save-and-project-momas-film-preservation-festival.html

Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Arthur Dubin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/us/arthur-dubin-historian-of-railroads-golden-era-dies-at-88.html

Richard Hall:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/13/richard-hall-obituary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8822930/Richard-Hall.html

Michel Peissel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/europe/michel-peissel-tibet-scholar-and-adventurer-dies-at-74.html
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HUMOUR
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For future archaeologists:

http://failbook.failblog.org/2011/10/14/funny-facebook-fails-planning-way-in-advance/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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Salvete omnes,

Thanks to everyone who offered thoughts on *Frugalitas - *your comments were
well appreciated!

The Roman Virtues Project continues this week with *Gravitas - *the virtue
of "gravity." Our website defines *Gravitas *as: "Gravity" A sense of the
importance of the matter at hand, responsibility and earnestness.

The Oxford Latin Dictionary offers several definitions for *Gravitas, *some
of which are unrelated to the meaning of the word as a virtue, but rather
the literal meaning of "having weight" or metaphorical meanings related to
this like the oppressiveness of an atmosphere or the offensiveness of a bad
smell or taste. But related to the sense we're examining, we find:
"Severity in one's treatment of others, sternness, harshness, *b. *strictness
of life or morals, austerity, *c. *grievousness (of punishment, affliction,
etc.)"
"Seriousness of conduct, speech, temperment, etc., gravity, dignity,
solemnity, etc. *b. *seriousness of approach (to a task, etc.), earnestness.
*c. *solemnity, majesty (of a speaker or writer, his language, etc.)"
"Authority, influence, importance (of a person, institution, etc.),
*b. *weightiness,
magnitude (of a task)"

While there certainly are some undertones of "severity" that tend to be
disturbing to the modern mindset, there is no mistaking the fact that the
Romans considered *seriousness *and *solemnity *a virtue in public affairs.
While few Romans would have disputed that a more relaxed attitude can be
appropriate in private (and some would have disputed even this!), almost all
would have agreed that *Gravitas *was an essential virtue.

What do all of you think? How important is *Gravitas? *How do you attempt to
practice and live the virtue of *Gravitas *in your own life? Who are the
great exemplars of the virtue of *Gravitas, *both ancient and modern? What
do you say?

Valete!


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Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodie est ante diem XV Kalendas Novembris; haec dies comitialis est.

"As soon as they came into view and recognised the arms and standards,
the thought of their country instantly calmed the passions of them
all. They had not yet been hardened to the sight of civic bloodshed,
they knew of no wars but those against foreign foes, and secession
from their own countrymen began to be looked upon as the last degree
of madness. First the leaders then the men on both sides sought an
opening for negotiations. Quinctius, who had had enough of fighting
for his country and was the last man to fight against it, and Corvus,
who was devoted to all his countrymen, especially to the soldiers and
above all to his own army, came forward to a colloquy. When the latter
was recognised, his opponents showed as much respect for him as his
own men by the silence with which they prepared to listen to him. He
addressed them as follows: 'Soldiers! When I left the City I offered
up prayers to the immortal gods who watch over our State, your State
and mine, that they would of their goodness grant me, not a victory
over you, but the glory of bringing about a reconciliation. There have
been and there will be abundant opportunities for winning glory in
war, on this occasion we must seek for peace. That which I implored of
the immortal gods, when I offered up my prayers, you have it in your
power now to grant me if you will please to remember that you are
encamped not in Samnium, not amongst the Volscians, but on Roman soil.
Those hills which you see are the hills of your City; I, your consul,
am the man under whose auspices and leadership you twice defeated the
legions of the Samnites a year ago and twice captured their camp. I am
Marcus Valerius Corvus, soldiers, a patrician it is true, but my
nobility has shown itself in benefits to you, not in wrongs; I have
never been the author of any law bearing harshly on you or of any
oppressive enactment of the senate; in all my commands I have been
stricter with myself than with you. If noble birth, if personal merit,
if high office, if distinguished service could make any man proud, I
venture to say that such is my descent, such the proof I have given of
myself, such the age at which I obtained the consulship, being only
twenty-three, that I had it in my power to show myself harsh and
overbearing not only to the plebs but even to the patricians. What
have you heard that I have said or done as consul more than I should
had I been one of your tribunes? In that spirit I administered two
successive consulships, in that spirit will this dread Dictatorship be
administered; I shall not be more gentle towards these soldiers of
mine and of my country than to you who would be-I loathe the word-its
enemies.

'You then will draw the sword against me before I shall draw it
against you; if there is to be fighting it is on your side that the
advance will be sounded, on your side will the battle-shout and charge
begin. Make up your minds to do what your fathers and
grandfathers-those who seceded to the Sacred Mount and those who
afterwards took possession of the Aventine-could not make up their
minds to do! Wait till your wives and mothers come out from the City
with dishevelled hair to meet you as they once came to meet
Coriolanus! Then the Volscian legions refrained from attacking us
because they had a Roman for their general; will not you, an army of
Romans, desist from an impious war? Titus Quinctius! by whatever means
you were placed in your present position, whether willingly or
unwillingly, if there is to be a conflict, retire, I beg you to the
rearmost line; it will be more honourable for you to flee from a
fellow-citizen than to fight against your country. But if there is to
be peace you will take your place with honour amongst the foremost and
play the part of a beneficent mediator in this conference. Demand what
is just and you shall receive it, though we should acquiesce even in
what is unjust rather than embrue impious hands in one another's
blood.' T. Quinctius, bathed in tears, turned to his men and said:
'If, soldiers, I am of any use at all you will find that I am a better
leader in peace than in war. The words you have heard are not those of
a Volscian or a Samnite but of a Roman. They were spoken by your
consul, your commander, soldiers, whose auspices you have found by
experience to be favourable for you; do not desire to learn by
experience what they may be when directed against you. The senate had
at its disposal other generals more ready to fight against you; it has
selected the one man who has showed most consideration for his
soldiers, in whom you have placed most confidence as your commander.
Even those who have victory in their power wish for peace, what ought
we to wish for? Why do we not lay aside all resentment and ambitious
hopes-those treacherous advisers-and trust ourselves and all our
interests to his tried fidelity?' " - Livy, History of Rome 7.40


ROMAN REPUBLICAN TERMS - THE TWELVE TABLES

The Law of the Twelve Tables (Lex Duodecim Tabularum, more informally
simply Duodecim Tabulae) was the ancient legislation that stood at the
foundation of Roman law. The Law of the Twelve Tables formed the
centerpiece of the constitution of the Roman Republic and the core of
the mos maiorum. The Twelve Tables must be distinguished from the
unrelated, much older "twelve shields" of King Numa Pompilius. The
Ancile, in ancient Rome, is the legendary shield of the god Mars said
to have fallen from heaven upon Numa Pompilius. At the same time, a
voice was heard which declared that Rome should be mistress of the
world while the shield was preserved. The Ancile was, as it were, the
palladium of Rome. Though there was but one Ancile that fell from
heaven, there were twelve preserved, called the Ancilia; Numa, by the
advice, as it is said, of the nymph Egeria, ordered eleven others,
perfectly like the first, to be made. This was so that if anyone
should attempt to steal it, as Ulysses did the Palladium, they might
not be able to distinguish the true Ancile from the false ones.

These Ancilia were preserved in the temple of Mars, and were committed
to the care of twelve priests of Salii, instituted for that purpose.
They were carried every year, in the month of March, in procession
around Rome, and on the 30th day of that month, were again deposited
in their place.

According to traditional, semi-legendary historical accounts preserved
in Livy, during the earliest period of the Republic the laws were kept
secret by the pontifices and other representatives of the patrician
class, and were enforced with untoward severity, especially against
the plebeian class. A plebeian named Terentilius proposed in 462 BC
that an official legal code should be published, so that plebeians
could not be surprised and would know the law.

For several years patricians opposed this request, but in 451 BC a
Decemvirate, or board of ten men, was appointed to draw up a code.
They allegedly sent an embassy to study the legislative system of the
Greeks, particularly the laws of Solon, possibly in the Greek colonies
of southern Italy.

The first ten codes were completed by the first Decemvirate in 450 BC.
Here is how Livy describes their creation, "...every citizen should
quietly consider each point, then talk it over with his friends, and,
finally, bring forward for public discussion any additions or
subtractions which seemed desirable." The last two codes were
completed in 449 BC by the second Decemvirate, and after a secessio
plebis to force the Senate to consider them, the Law of the Twelve
Tables was formally promulgated. The Twelve Tables were literally
drawn up on twelve ivory tablets which were posted in the Forum
Romanum so that all Romans could read and know them.

The laws of the Twelve Tables were not a comprehensive statement of
all law; they are a sequence of definitions of various private rights
and procedures, similar to a bill of rights. They generally took for
granted such things as the institutions of the family, and various
rituals for formal transactions. For such an important document, it
is somewhat surprising that the original text has been lost. The
original tablets were destroyed when the Gauls under Brennus burnt
Rome in 390 BC. There was no other official promulgation of them to
survive, only unofficial editions. What we have of them today is brief
excerpts and quotations from these laws in other authors. They are
written in a strange, archaic, laconic, and somewhat childish and
sing-song version of Latin. As such, though we cannot tell whether the
quoted fragments accurately preserve the original form, what we have
gives us some insight into the grammar of early Latin.

Like most other primitive laws, they combine strict and rigorous
penalties with equally strict and rigorous procedural forms. In most
of the surviving quotations from these texts, the original table that
held them is not given. Scholars have guessed at where surviving
fragments belong by comparing them with the few known attributions. It
cannot be known with any certainty from what survives that the
originals ever were organised this way, or even if they ever were
organised by subject at all.

Valete bene!

Cato

Ex officio censoris T. Iuli Sabini.
Nova Roma, a.d. XIII Kal. Nov


SALVETE!

I censor Titus Iulius Sabinus announce: Nova Roma 2764 a.U.c census was concluded.

1. The census legal basis consists of:
- Nova Roman Constitution, point II.A.4 and IV.A.1.b.
- Lex Fabia de censu.
- Edictum censorium Iulium Memmium de censum.

2. Nova Roma 2764 a.U.c census started on 17 May and concluded today 20 October. It was conducted by the following censorial working team:
- T. Iulius Sabinus, censor.
- L. Iulia Aquila, scriba pro census.
- C. Maria Caeca, scriba pro census.
- Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, scriba pro census.

3. Census results:

Nova Roma wiki give the possibility for a better centralized system of reports. The census page is located to this address:
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Census_MMDCCLXIV
Here census details are presented starting with a description of the ancient census and then continuing with what was done in the interval of time allowed for it.
Contacted by governors using various methods described in our laws, then contacted by the censor and census scribes, our citizens answered to the census request or registered themselves on the special pages created for census.

The census main statistic is this:
Active registered citizens = 537.
Citizenship applications in progress = 111.
Minors (awaiting parental permission) = 63.
Renounced citizenship = 313.
Rejected citizenship applications = 2439.
Disappeared = 2485.
Banished = 2.
Deceased = 10.

At the beginning of the census the total number of Nova Roma registered citizens was 1345.
At the end of the census the total number of Nova Roma registered citizens is 537.
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Census_MMDCCLXIV_Registered
The censorial office received census emails after the deadline, too. Their status will be clarified very soon and their names will be update in lists, case by case.

Currently Nova Roma is composed of: 27 provinces.
Organized in provinces are: 497 active registered citizens
Not organized in provinces are: 24 countries.
These countries include: 40 active registered citizens.
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Census_MMDCCLXIV_Statistics

The greatest number of citizens in a province is: 62, Mediatlantica, governor Ti. Galerius Paulinus.
The most constant province in citizenship number is: 21, Pannonia, governor Cn. Cornelius Lentulus.
The only province without citizens is: Guria.

Nova Roma currently has: 61 patricians.
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/List_of_patricians
The number of recorded equestrians is: 1.
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/List_of_equestrians
At 25th of July (taxes payment deadline) Nova Roma has: 105 assidui (taxpayers) citizens distributed in 50 centuries and 31 rural tribes:
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Nova_Roman_taxpayers_2764_AUC_(Nova_Roma)

5. Conclusions:
This is a point I want to let open for discussions in our Forum (Nova Roma mailing list).
Our citizens are encouraged to analyze, comment or recommend anything about census and Nova Roman citizenship.

VALETE,
T. Iulius Sabinus
Censor.

SALVETE!

Due to the census end, tomorrow, 21st of October 2764 a.U.c, the Lustrum is performed. Even if we are spread around the world and is impossible to gather together how our ancients done in the Campus Martius, I ask any Nova Roman to meditate to the significance of that very important ritual of purification and to pray for Nova Roma future success.

VALETE,
T. Iulius Sabinus
Censor.

SALVETE!

Today, early in the morning, I performed the Lustrum, the ritual cleansing of the Nova Roman state.
With that done, at the end of the census and based of positive signs I received, Nova Roma is purified and will live a new foundation.

I wish to all of you health, happiness and prosperity!

May the Gods bless us!

Details:
http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Lustrum_MMDCCLXIV

VALETE,
T. Iulius Sabinus
censor.

Salvete!
Gratias tibi ago, Censor! It would seem that we all have work to do, and I, for one, look forward to doing it.

Valete!
C. Maria Caeca
Sacerdos Vestae

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C. Equitius Cato omnibus in foro SPD

The auguries having been taken and shown favorable, I hereby announce the calling of the Senate of Nova Roma from sunrise (CET) on a.d. IX Kal. Nov. and concluding at sunset (CET) on pridie Kal. Nov.

That means the Senate will convene on October 24th at 07h32 Rome time (01h32 US Eastern Time), and will end on October 31st at 17h06 Rome Time (11h06 US Eastern Time).

Among the items on the agenda will be a presentation from the CFO and a vote on matters that will allow us to move forward with regards to our financial status.

Valete bene,

Cato

Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem IX Kalendas Novembris; haec dies comitialis est.

"After various opinions had been expressed, Annius spoke as follows:
"Although it was I who put the question to you as to what answer
should be given, I still think that it is of more importance to the
interests of the State to decide what must be done rather than what
must be said. When our plans are developed it will be easy enough to
fit words to facts. If even now we are capable of submitting to
servitude under the shadowy pretext of a treaty on equal terms, what
is to prevent us from deserting the Sidicines and receiving our orders
not only from the Romans but even from the Samnites, and giving as our
reply that we are ready to lay down our arms at the beck and call of
the Romans? But if your hearts are at last touched by any yearning for
independence; if a treaty, an alliance, an equality of rights really
exists; if we are at liberty to boast of the fact that the Romans are
of the same stock as ourselves, though once we were ashamed of it; if
our army, which when united with theirs doubles their strength, and
which the consuls will not dispense with when conducting wars which
concern them alone-if, I say, that army is really an army of their
allies, then why are we not on an equal footing in all respects? Why
is not one consul elected from the Latins? Those who possess half the
strength, do they possess half the government? This is not in itself
too much honour for us, seeing that we acknowledge Rome to be the head
of Latium, but we have made it appear so by our prolonged forbearance.

"But if ever you longed for an opportunity of taking your place in the
government and of making use of your liberty, now is the time; this is
the opportunity which has been given you by your own courage and the
goodness of the gods. You tried their patience by refusing to supply
troops. Who doubts that they were intensely irritated when we broke
through a custom more than two centuries old? Still they put up with
the annoyance. We waged war with the Paelignians on our own account;
they who before did not allow us the right to defend our own frontiers
did not intervene. They heard that the Sidicines were received into
our protection, that the Campanians had revolted from them to us, that
we were preparing an army to act against the Samnites with whom they
had a treaty, they never moved out of their City. What was this
extraordinary self-restraint due to but to a consciousness of our
strength and of theirs? I have it on good authority that when the
Samnites were laying their complaints about us they received a reply
from the Roman senate, from which it was quite evident that they
themselves do not now claim that Latium is under the authority of
Rome. Make your rights effective by insisting on what they are tacitly
conceding to you. If any one is afraid of saying this, I declare my
readiness to say it not only in the ears of the Roman people and their
senate but in the audience of Jupiter himself who dwells in the
Capitol, and to tell them that if they wish us to remain in alliance
with them they must accept one consul from us and half their senate."
His speech was followed by a universal shout of approval, and he was
empowered to do and to say whatever he deemed to be in furtherance of
the interests of the State of Latium and of his own honour." - Livy,
History of Rome 8.4


"The hardest fighting fell to the Third and Seventh Legions, and the
commander Antonius at the head of a picked auxiliary force pressed the
attack in this sector. Their grim rivalry in the offensive was too
much for the Vitellians, while the missiles hurled down on the
'tortoise' glanced harmlessly off. So in the end the defenders tipped
over the great gun itself upon the enemy beneath. For the moment this
made a gap, as it crushed the men on whom it fell. But it also took
with it in its fall the merlons and the upper part of the wall, and in
the same instant an adjacent tower succumbed to a hail of stones.
Here, while the men of the Seventh pressed the attack in close
formation, those of the Third managed to break a way through the gate
with their axes and swords. According to the unanimous testimony of
our authorities, the first to penetrate the camp was Gaius Volusius, a
private of the Third Legion. He climbed up to the wall, threw down any
men still attempting resistance, and waving and yelling to attract
attention, cried out 'The camp is ours'. His comrades, now that the
Vitellians were on the run and were jumping down from the wall, surged
through to join him. Heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy
throughout the open space between the camp and the fortifications of
Cremona

And now for the second time their eyes fell upon a battle setting
entirely new to them: lofty town-walls, towers of masonry, gates with
iron portcullises, a garrison flourishing its weapons and Cremona's
teeming populace, which was deeply attached to the Vitellian cause -
to say nothing of the large number of visitors from the rest of Italy
who had flocked to the fair regularly held at that time of year, their
numbers a help to the defence and their wealth an allurement to the
assailants. Antonius ordered torches to be produced and applied to the
most attractive suburban houses. The idea was that the loss of their
property might induce the Cremonese to change sides. Such buildings as
stood close to the walls and over-topped them he manned with his best
troops, who dislodged the first line of the defence with joists, tiles
and firebrands.

Some of the legionaries were already forming up for the 'tortoise' and
others discharging missiles and stones, when the morale of the
Vitellians gradually began to crack. The higher the rank, the less the
will to resist the inevitable. They feared that if Cremona too were
taken by storm, there would be no further question of quarter and the
conqueror's anger would fall entirely upon the tribunes and centurions
who were worth killing rather than upon the multitude who had nothing
to lose. But the ordinary soldier stood firm, for he cared nothing for
the future and thought himself relatively safe, because unknown.
Roaming through the streets or hidden in houses, these men refused to
ask for peace even when they had ceased to wage war. The camp
commandants took down the portraits of Vitellius and the indications
of his name. Caecina, who was still in confinement, was released from
his shackles and requested to plead for the Vitellians. He stood on
his dignity and refused, but they wore down his resistance with
tearful entreaties, presenting the degrading phenomenon of many fine
soldiers invoking the aid of a single traitor. Soon after, the white
flag was displayed prominently from the walls. Antonius signalled the
cease-fire, and the Vitellians brought out the standards and eagles.
These were followed by a dejected column of disarmed men with downcast
eyes. The victors had formed up to receive them, and at first jeered
and thrust at them with their weapons. But after a while, when the
beaten men faced their insults without flinching and impassively
endured everything, their tormentors remembered that this was the army
which, not long previously, had refrained from pressing home its
victory at Bedriacum. But when Caecina, distinguished by bordered toga
and lictors, thrust aside the throng and made his way forward in his
capacity as consul, the victors were in an uproar. They taunted him
with conceit and malevolence, never attractive vices, and treachery as
well. Antonius intervened, and giving him an escort sent him off to
Vespasian." - Tacitus, The Histories III.29-31

On this day in A.D. 69, the Second Battle of Cremona was fought. The
army of Vespasian was victorius over Vitellius, and they celebrated by
sacking nearby Cremona. This innocent city suffered a four day orgy of
murder and destruction.


ROMAN REPUBLICAN TERMS - IMPERIUM

In ancient Rome imperium could be used as a term indicating a
characteristic of a person - the measure of formal power they had.
This qualification could be used in a rather loose context (for
example poets used it, not necessarily writing about state officials),
but in the Roman society it was also a more formal concept of legal
authority. A man with imperium had in principle absolute authority to
apply the law within the scope of his magistracy or promagistracy, but
could be vetoed or overruled by a magistrate or promagistrate having
imperium maius or imperium maior (a higher degree of imperium) or, as
most republican magistratures were multiple (not quite collegial: each
could act on his own), by the equal power of his colleague, e.g. the
other Consul. Some modern scholars (e.g. A.H.M. Jones) have defined it
as "the power vested by the state in a person to do what they consider
to be in the best interests of the state".

Imperium was indicated in two prominent ways. A "curule" magistrate or
promagistrate carried an ivory baton surmounted by an eagle as his
personal symbol of office (cf. field marshal's baton). Any such
magistrate was also escorted by lictors bearing the fasces
(traditional symbols of imperium and authority); when outside the
pomerium, axes were added to the fasces to indicate an "imperial"
magistrate's power to enact capital punishment outside of Rome (the
axes were removed within the pomerium). The number of lictors in
attendance upon a magistrate was an overt indication of the degree of
imperium. When in the field, a curule magistrate possessing an
imperium greater or equal to praetorian imperium wore a sash ritually
knotted on the front of his cuirass. Further any man executing
imperium within his sphere of influence was entitled to the curule chair.

* Dictator - 24 lictors outside the Pomerium and 12 inside. Starting
from the dictatorate of Lucius Cornelius Sulla the latter rule was
ignored. Because the dictator could enact capital punishment within
Rome as well as without, his lictors did not remove the axes from
their fasces within the pomerium
* Consul - 12 lictors each
* Praetor - 6 lictors, 2 lictors within the Pomerium
* Master of the Horse (magister equitum, the Dictator's deputy) - 6
lictors
* Curule Aedile (aedilis curulis) - 2 lictors. Because a plebeian
aedile (aedilis plebis) did not own imperium, he was not escorted by
lictors

As can be seen, dictatorial imperium was superior to consular,
consular to praetorian, and praetorian to aedilician; there is some
historical dispute as to whether or not praetorian imperium was
superior to "equine-magisterial" imperium. A promagistrate, or a man
executing a curule office without actually holding that office, also
owned imperium in the same degree as the actual incumbents (i.e.,
proconsular imperium being more or less equal to consular imperium,
propraetorian imperium to praetorian) and was attended by an equal
number of lictors.

Certain extraordinary commissions, such as Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus's
famous command against the pirates, were invested with imperium maius,
meaning they outranked all other owners of imperium (in Pompey's case,
even the consuls) within their sphere of command (his being "ultimate
on the seas, and within 50 miles inland"). Imperium maius later became
a hallmark of the Roman Emperor.

Another techical use of the term in Roman law was for the power to
extend the law, beyond its mere interpretation, extending imperium
from formal legislators (under the ever-republican constitution:
popular assemblies, senate, magistrates, emperor and their delegates)
to the jurisprudence of jurisconsults.


Valete bene!

Cato

Avete Omnes,

For the past three years, the Back Alley has had a gift exchange going on to
celebrate the holiday season whether it be
Saturnalia/Yule/Hanukkah/Christmas. This year I would like to see if there
would be any interest in the ML getting in the act.

If you are interested, please send me an email privately or respond publicly
and I will get in contact with you.

The price cap is $25.00 US. (that is the upper limit)

If anyone has any questions, please let me know.

Respectfully,

Sulla


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I'd be interested in this. What is Back Alley?


Vale,

D. Mento

On 10/26/2011 2:16 PM, Robert Woolwine wrote:
>
> Avete Omnes,
>
> For the past three years, the Back Alley has had a gift exchange going
> on to
> celebrate the holiday season whether it be
> Saturnalia/Yule/Hanukkah/Christmas. This year I would like to see if there
> would be any interest in the ML getting in the act.
>
> If you are interested, please send me an email privately or respond
> publicly
> and I will get in contact with you.
>
> The price cap is $25.00 US. (that is the upper limit)
>
> If anyone has any questions, please let me know.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Sulla
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

--


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Ave!

Well the Back Alley is an unofficial, uncensored and adult list that is
populated by many Nova romans, ex-Nova Romans and just friends in general.
It is open to just about anyone. Just when you join, don't be shocked by
the language used (its more earthy), pictures posted or subject matter
discussed. It is probably the most ROMAN list affiliated with Nova Roma.

Think of it this way...if Ovid was alive and well..he would be hanging out
in the Back Alley than the ML. ;)

And, if anyone wants an invite - just let me know.

Vale,

Sulla

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:48 AM, D. Cornelius Mento <
DecimusCorneliusMento@...> wrote:

> I'd be interested in this. What is Back Alley?
>
>
> Vale,
>
> D. Mento
>
> On 10/26/2011 2:16 PM, Robert Woolwine wrote:
>
>
>
> Avete Omnes,
>
> For the past three years, the Back Alley has had a gift exchange going on
> to
> celebrate the holiday season whether it be
> Saturnalia/Yule/Hanukkah/Christmas. This year I would like to see if there
> would be any interest in the ML getting in the act.
>
> If you are interested, please send me an email privately or respond
> publicly
> and I will get in contact with you.
>
> The price cap is $25.00 US. (that is the upper limit)
>
> If anyone has any questions, please let me know.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Sulla
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
>
> --
>

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Paterculus Sullae omnibusque S.P.D.
    A gift exchange sounds like a nice tradition to start. Perhaps you could explain the details a bit more for those of us who have never participated in such a thing before. For instance, "How are givers assigned to recipients?" "Would the giver be known, or would this information be secret?", etc. Regardless, thank you for suggesting the idea, and please add me to the list of those interested.
  Vale et valete

--- On Wed,
26/10/11, Robert Woolwine <robert.woolwine@...> wrote:

From: Robert Woolwine <robert.woolwine@...>
Subject:
[Nova-Roma] Gift Exchange - Something new
To: "Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com" <nova-roma@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, 26 October, 2011, 14:16
















 









Avete Omnes,



For the past three years, the Back Alley has had a gift exchange going on to

celebrate the holiday season whether it be

Saturnalia/Yule/Hanukkah/Christmas. This year I would like to see if there

would be any interest in the ML getting in the act.



If you are interested, please send me an email privately or respond publicly

and I will get in contact with you.



The price cap is $25.00 US. (that is the upper limit)



If anyone has any questions, please let me know.



Respectfully,



Sulla



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Ave!

Sure, this is how I have done it for the Back Alley. Everyone who is
interested notifies me of their interest. I then draw up a list of everyone
who expressed interest. I then draw names out of a hat to decide who
becomes whose "secret santa" I then send a private email to the indivdual
who is the secret santa with their "victim's" (get it Halloween is right
around the corner hehehe) contact information. At that point it is really
out of my hands in determining if the secret santa exposes his or her
identity. Generally around the 20th of December we all open our gifts at
the same time and then post the results on the list kinda like our own party
type of atmosphere.. It is in the end just a fun thing to do...and another
step in building and bonding the community together. :)

Respectfully,

Sulla

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Arthur Waite <r467g@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Paterculus Sullae omnibusque S.P.D.
> A gift exchange sounds like a nice tradition to start. Perhaps you
> could explain the details a bit more for those of us who have never
> participated in such a thing before. For instance, "How are givers assigned
> to recipients?" "Would the giver be known, or would this information be
> secret?", etc. Regardless, thank you for suggesting the idea, and please add
> me to the list of those interested.
> Vale et valete
>
> --- On Wed,
> 26/10/11, Robert Woolwine <robert.woolwine@...> wrote:
>
> From: Robert Woolwine <robert.woolwine@...>
> Subject:
> [Nova-Roma] Gift Exchange - Something new
> To: "Nova-Roma@yahoogroups.com" <nova-roma@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 26 October, 2011, 14:16
>
>
>
> Avete Omnes,
>
> For the past three years, the Back Alley has had a gift exchange going on
> to
>
> celebrate the holiday season whether it be
>
> Saturnalia/Yule/Hanukkah/Christmas. This year I would like to see if there
>
> would be any interest in the ML getting in the act.
>
> If you are interested, please send me an email privately or respond
> publicly
>
> and I will get in contact with you.
>
> The price cap is $25.00 US. (that is the upper limit)
>
> If anyone has any questions, please let me know.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Sulla
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


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Salvete omnes!

I found a site that I would like to recommend to all of you. The link is:
www.unrv.com

and I very much like what I see there, especially the index of book
reviews! they also have a forum, and while I have dipped into some of the
topics, I'm not fond of forums, so I haven't made extensive use of it.
However, most of the discussions I've read are thoughtful, well written and
intelligent, so I recommend taking a look. Tell me what you think, if you
would, and, perhaps, your visit might spark something you would like to
discuss, here, too.

Valete quam optime!
C. Maria Caeca

Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem VI Kalendas Novembris; haec dies comitialis est.

"The terrible severity of the punishment, however, made the soldiers
more obedient to their general, and not only did it lead to greater
attention being paid to the pickets and sentry duties and the ordering
of the outposts, but when they went into battle for the final contest,
this severity proved to be of the greatest service. The battle was
exactly like one fought in a civil war; there was nothing in the Latin
army different from the Roman except their courage. At first the
Romans used the large round shield called the clipeus, afterwards,
when the soldiers received pay, the smaller oblong shield called the
scutum was adopted. The phalanx formation, similar to the Macedonian
of the earlier days, was abandoned in favour of the distribution into
companies (manipuli); the rear portion being broken up into smaller
divisions. The foremost line consisted of the hastati, formed into
fifteen companies, drawn up at a short distance from each other. These
were called the light-armed companies, as whilst one-third carried a
long spear (hasta) and short iron javelins, the remainder carried
shields. This front line consisted of youths in the first bloom of
manhood just old enough for service. Behind them were stationed an
equal number of companies, called principes, made up of men in the
full vigour of life, all carrying shields and furnished with superior
weapons. This body of thirty companies were called the antepilani.
Behind them were the standards under which were stationed fifteen
companies, which were divided into three sections called vexillae, the
first section in each was called the pilus, and they consisted of 180
men to every standard (vexillum). The first vexillum was followed by
the triarii, veterans of proved courage; the second by the rorarii, or
"skirmishers," younger men and less distinguished; the third by the
accensi, who were least to be depended upon, and were therefore placed
in the rearmost line.

When the battle formation of the army was completed, the hastati were
the first to engage. If they failed to repulse the enemy, they slowly
retired through the intervals between the companies of the principes
who then took up the fight, the hastati following in their rear. The
triarii, meantime, were resting on one knee under their standards,
their shields over their shoulders and their spears planted on the
ground with the points upwards, giving them the appearance of a
bristling palisade. If the principes were also unsuccessful, they
slowly retired to the triarii, which has given rise to the proverbial
saying, when people are in great difficulty "matters have come down to
the triarii." When the triarii had admitted the hastati and principes
through the intervals separating their companies they rose from their
kneeling posture and instantly closing their companies up they blocked
all passage through them and in one compact mass fell on the enemy as
the last hope of the army. The enemy who had followed up the others as
though they had defeated them, saw with dread a now and larger army
rising apparently out of the earth. There were generally four legions
enrolled, consisting each of 5000 men, and 300 cavalry were assigned
to each legion. A force of equal size used to be supplied by the
Latins, now, however, they were hostile to Rome. The two armies were
drawn up in the same formation, and they knew that if the maniples
kept their order they would have to fight, not only vexilla with
vexilla, hastati with hastati, principes with principes, but even
centurion with centurion. There were amongst the triarii two
centurions, one in each army-the Roman, possessing but little bodily
strength but an energetic and experienced soldier, the Latin, a man of
enormous strength and a splendid fighter-very well known to each other
because they had always served in the same company. The Roman,
distrusting his own strength, had obtained the consuls' permission
before leaving Rome to choose his own sub-centurion to protect him
from the man who was destined to be his enemy. This youth, finding
himself face to face with the Latin centurion, gained a victory over
him." - Livy, History of Rome 8.8


PERSON OF THE DAY - FAUNUS

The god of wild nature and fertility, also regarded as the giver of
oracles. He was later identified with the Greek Pan and also assumed
some of Pan's characteristics such as the horns and hooves. As the
protector of cattle he is also referred to as Lupercus ("he who wards
off the wolf") by Justin Martyr.

Faunus was known as the father of Bona Dea (Fauna, his feminine side)
and Latinus by the nymph Marica (who was also sometimes Faunus'
mother). One particular tradition tells that Faunus was the king of
Latium, and the son of Picus. After his death he was deified as
Fatuus, and a small cult formed around his person in the sacred forest
of Tibur (Tivoli). On February 15 (the founding date of his temple)
his feast, the Lupercalia, was celebrated. Priests (called the
Luperci) wearing goat skins walked through the streets of Rome and hit
the spectators with belts made from goat skin. Another festival was
the Faunalia, observed on December 5.

He is accompanied by the fauns, analogous to the Greek satyrs. His
feminine counterpart is Fauna. The wolfskin, wreath, and a goblet are
his attributes

Valete bene!

Cato

Sta. Cornelia Aeternia Omnibus in foro S.P.D.


With much regret and under circumstances one just cannot control, the North
American Conventus 2764 is being cancelled . There are many reasons why this
decision was made, but the most effected reason was very mundane. Despite
the chosen location of the Conventus didn't seem to appeal to many cives,
the observation of the lack of participation with the Ludi all of them
overall, and now this household is going to be moving to another residence
which co-relates in the time of the Conventus, which in all honesty is the
biggest reason.

Trying to usher at least five pets, several libraries of books, a legion of
boxes, and a Conventus at the same time, there's bound to be chaos and most
likely a unpleasant time in the end for all...


However I do apologize that this mundane matter has arisen, but in order for
continued participation in Nova Roma, mundane matters must be attended to
first.

Vale Optime,
Statia Cornelia Aeternia (Aedilis Curulis)








--
*"Fortes fortuna iuvat"*


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Pudor!

On 10/28/2011 12:34 AM, Belle Morte Statia wrote:
>
>
> Sta. Cornelia Aeternia Omnibus in foro S.P.D.
>
>
> With much regret and under circumstances one just cannot control, the
> North American Conventus 2764 is being cancelled . There are many
> reasons why this decision was made, but the most effected reason was
> very mundane. Despite the chosen location of the Conventus didn't
> seem to appeal to many cives, the observation of the lack of
> participation with the Ludi all of them overall, and now this
> household is going to be moving to another residence which co-relates
> in the time of the Conventus, which in all honesty is the biggest reason.
>
> Trying to usher at least five pets, several libraries of books, a
> legion of boxes, and a Conventus at the same time, there's bound to be
> chaos and most likely a unpleasant time in the end for all...
>
>
> However I do apologize that this mundane matter has arisen, but in
> order for continued participation in Nova Roma, mundane matters must
> be attended to first.
>
> Vale Optime,
> Statia Cornelia Aeternia (Aedilis Curulis)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> /"Fortes fortuna iuvat"/
>
>

--


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Salve,

Although its extremely early in the morning and I'm running on severe sleep
deprivation..

I actually know the meaning of that word..

Vale,
Aeternia


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:49 AM, D. Cornelius Mento <
DecimusCorneliusMento@...> wrote:

> Pudor!
>
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2011 12:34 AM, Belle Morte Statia wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Sta. Cornelia Aeternia Omnibus in foro S.P.D.
>
>
> With much regret and under circumstances one just cannot control, the
> North American Conventus 2764 is being cancelled . There are many reasons
> why this decision was made, but the most effected reason was very mundane.
> Despite the chosen location of the Conventus didn't seem to appeal to many
> cives, the observation of the lack of participation with the Ludi all of
> them overall, and now this household is going to be moving to another
> residence which co-relates in the time of the Conventus, which in all
> honesty is the biggest reason.
>
> Trying to usher at least five pets, several libraries of books, a legion of
> boxes, and a Conventus at the same time, there's bound to be chaos and most
> likely a unpleasant time in the end for all...
>
>
> However I do apologize that this mundane matter has arisen, but in order
> for continued participation in Nova Roma, mundane matters must be attended
> to first.
>
> Vale Optime,
> Statia Cornelia Aeternia (Aedilis Curulis)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> *"Fortes fortuna iuvat"*
>
>
>
> --
>

--
*"Fortes fortuna iuvat"*


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Iocia, Domina.

On 10/28/2011 1:33 PM, Belle Morte Statia wrote:
> Salve,
>
> Although its extremely early in the morning and I'm running on severe sleep
> deprivation..
>
> I actually know the meaning of that word..
>
> Vale,
> Aeternia
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:49 AM, D. Cornelius Mento<
> DecimusCorneliusMento@...> wrote:
>
>> Pudor!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/28/2011 12:34 AM, Belle Morte Statia wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sta. Cornelia Aeternia Omnibus in foro S.P.D.
>>
>>
>> With much regret and under circumstances one just cannot control, the
>> North American Conventus 2764 is being cancelled . There are many reasons
>> why this decision was made, but the most effected reason was very mundane.
>> Despite the chosen location of the Conventus didn't seem to appeal to many
>> cives, the observation of the lack of participation with the Ludi all of
>> them overall, and now this household is going to be moving to another
>> residence which co-relates in the time of the Conventus, which in all
>> honesty is the biggest reason.
>>
>> Trying to usher at least five pets, several libraries of books, a legion of
>> boxes, and a Conventus at the same time, there's bound to be chaos and most
>> likely a unpleasant time in the end for all...
>>
>>
>> However I do apologize that this mundane matter has arisen, but in order
>> for continued participation in Nova Roma, mundane matters must be attended
>> to first.
>>
>> Vale Optime,
>> Statia Cornelia Aeternia (Aedilis Curulis)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *"Fortes fortuna iuvat"*
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>
>

--


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Sta. Cornelia Aeternia Omnibus in foro S.P.D.

It has been brought to my attention by telephone call, our beloved Vestalis
and Prima Scriba one C. Maria Caeca is having massive computer problems.
She has asked me to post so everyone is aware. We are looking at least a
week of Caeca being offline.

If anyone is in need if getting a hold of her for urgent business. Do not
hesitate in contacting me.

Bonam Noctem,
Aeternia

--
*"Fortes fortuna iuvat"*


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Cato omnibus in foro SPD

Hodiernus dies est ante diem III Kalendas Novembris; haec dies comitialis est.

"Although the memory of every traditional custom relating to either
human or divine things has been lost through our abandonment of the
old religion of our fathers in favour of foreign novelties, I thought
it not alien from my subject to record these regulations in the very
words in which they have been handed down. In some authors I find it
stated that it was only after the battle was over that the Samnites
who had been waiting to see the result came to support the Romans.
Assistance was also coming to the Latins from Lanuvium whilst time was
being wasted in deliberation, but whilst they were starting and a part
of their column was already on the march, news came of the defeat of
the Latins. They faced about and re-entered their city, and it is
stated that Milionius, their praetor, remarked that for that very
short march they would have to pay a heavy price to Rome. Those of the
Latins who survived the battle retreated by many different routes, and
gradually assembled in the city of Vescia. Here the leaders met to
discuss the situation, and Numisius assured them that both armies had
really experienced the same fortune and an equal amount of bloodshed;
the Romans enjoyed no more than the name of victory, in every other
respect they were as good as defeated. The headquarters of both
consuls were polluted with blood; the one had murdered his son, the
other had devoted himself to death; their whole army was massacred,
their hastati and principes killed; the companies both in front of and
behind the standards had suffered enormous losses; the triarii in the
end saved the situation. The Latin troops, it was true, were equally
cut up, but Latium and the Volsci could supply reinforcements more
quickly than Rome. If, therefore, they approved, he would at once call
out the fighting men from the Latin and Volscian peoples and march
back with an army to Capua, and would take the Romans unawares; a
battle was the last thing they were expecting. He despatched
misleading letters throughout Latium and the Volscian country, those
who had not been engaged in the battle being the more ready to believe
what he said, and a hastily levied body of militia, drawn from all
quarters, was got together. This army was met by the consul at
Trifanum, a place between Sinuessa and Menturnae. Without waiting even
to choose the sites for their camps, the two armies piled their
baggage, fought and finished the war, for the Latins were so utterly
worsted that when the consul with his victorious army was preparing to
ravage their territory, they made a complete surrender and the
Campanians followed their example. Latium and Capua were deprived of
their territory. The Latin territory, including that of Privernum,
together with the Falernian, which had belonged to the Campanians as
far as the Volturnus, was distributed amongst the Roman plebs. They
received two jugera a head in the Latin territory, their allotment
being made up by three-quarters of a jugerum in the Privernate
district; in the Falernian district they received three entire jugera,
the additional quarter being allowed owing to the distance. The
Laurentes, amongst the Latins and the aristocracy of the Campanians,
were not thus penalised because they had not revolted. An order was
made for the treaty with the Laurentes to be renewed, and it has since
been renewed annually on the tenth day after the Latin Festival. The
Roman franchise was conferred on the aristocracy of Campania, and a
brazen tablet recording the fact was fastened up in Rome in the temple
of Castor, and the people of Campania were ordered to pay them
each-they numbered 1600 in all-the sum of 450 denarii annually." -
Livy, History of Rome 8.11


Today is the third day of the Isia, in honor of the Goddess Isis.


PERSON OF THE DAY - TERMINUS

The Roman deity protecting the boundaries between the fields.
Actually, the stone that marked the border was thought to be a sacred
object with divine powers. Each year, on February 23, the feast of the
Terminalia was held. At this ceremony people poured sacrificial blood
over the stone and placed wreaths of flowers to renew the powers of
the stone. Later, people began to regard the stone as a god.

The god Iuppiter, who also protected the borders as Jupiter Terminus
or Terminalus, was closely connected with Terminus. Legend has it that
Terminus was the only god who did not give way to Jupiter when he
moved into his temple on the Capitol. In this temple, a boundary stone
was worshipped as the stone of Terminus. It was also believed that a
curse was placed on anyone who would remove a boundary stone.


Valete bene!

Cato

Salvete FYI Valete Ti. Galerius Paulinus To: explorator@yahoogroups.com; BRITARCH@...
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,

Ralph Hancock,Jim Lockmiller, Kris Curry, Diana Wright, David Pettegrew,

Donna Hurst, Jennifer Cosham, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,

Michael Caputo, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan,

Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell,

Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this

week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HUMANS

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National Geographic has a feature on Otzi's latest autopsy:



http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/iceman-autopsy/hall-texte

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025091533.htm



The evolutionary history of the dog:



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001843790269560.html



More on concerns over Altamira:



http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-controversy-reopening-sistine-chapel-stone.html

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8943sci1.html



A Berlin restaurant caters to the 'modern' caveman:



http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,782747,00.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/caveman-cafe-brings-stone-age-diet-to-the-berlin-masses-2376372.html

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AFRICA

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Latest on efforts to repatriate the remains of Intripid crewmen:



http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-25/news/30320472_1_dean-somers-moammar-gadhafi-somers-family



More on that 'paint shop':



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/14/MNUD1LHCV8.DTL

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Evidence of Assyrian trepanation from Kultepe (I think ... some characters

are

garbled in this one):



http://www.aina.org/ata/20111028204303.htm



Ancient 'take out windows' from Godin Tepe (Iran):



http://www.livescience.com/16773-ancient-takeout-window-godin-tepe.html



Evidence of a 'belief system' at Gobekli Tepe:



http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery-2011-10-13



A mummy has the oldest known case of prostate cancer in Ancient Egypt:



http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/mummy-has-oldest-case-of-prostat.html



Interesting feature on conservation work on an Egyptian sarcophagus at the

Ashmolean:



http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/9325406.Modern_work_takes_place_on_ancient_coffin/



A number of Egyptian items which were headed to Australia are being returned

to Egypt:



http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25378/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-receives--stolen-artefacts-from-Australia.aspx



A Byzantine "prayer box" (reliquary?) from an Ir David dig:



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149159#.Tqx-u3Ik-uI

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/miniature-byzantine-prayer-box-found-near-city-of-david/



An early Islamic site north of Jericho:



http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/10/26/joint-palestinian-american-dig-near-jericho-yields-clues-about-early-islamic-cult



Nice 'backgrounder' on Hanukkah:



http://www.phillyburbs.com/lifestyle/holidays/holiday_traditions/a-little-background-on-hanukkah/article_26d8f2d6-00cc-11e1-a7a2-001a4bcf6878.html



... and a feature on the 'real' "occupiers":



http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50095



Quite the kerfuffle over the Elad contract in the City of David:



http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-ngo-elad-group-has-veto-power-over-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-1.391619



... but the High Court ruled the contract legal:



http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/high-court-critical-of-elad-contract-in-city-of-david-park-but-rules-it-legal-1.392184

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243280



... and the Mughrabi bridge is back into full saga form:



http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=243110

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149063

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243189

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149078

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149083#.Tqx_r3Ik-uI

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/222984



cf: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=243165



... and there's an uproar-in-the-making over treatment of graves at the

Museum of

Tolerance site:



http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/grave-concerns-1.391852



... oh ... and there's a McDonalds at Masada:



http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/all-in-all-a-hamburger-1.391188

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mcdonald-s-at-masada-not-worth-killing-yourself-for-1.386158



Dig opportunities in Israel:



http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Archaeological_Excavations_Israel_2012.htm?mid=50



The Dead Sea is nominated as one of the seven natural wonders:



http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=display&catid=99&tid=177874



More concerns because of tourism at sites in Turkey:



http://www.todayszaman.com/news-261336-tourism-development-versus-historic-preservation-in-turkey-reaches-fever-pitch.html



Some infrastructure funding for Babylon:



http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-14129-iraq-sets-aside-85m-for-babylon-infrastructure/



Feature on Acre:



http://www.macon.com/2011/10/29/1763443/crusader-town-being-rediscovered.html



Concerns for archaeology and sites in Syria:



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-upheaval-halts-race-to-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-fort-2370224.html



Review of Simon Montefiore, *Jerusalem: The Biography*:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/jerusalem-by-simon-sebag-montefiore-book-review.html



More on those 'nazca lines' in Saudia Arabia:



http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/story/2011-10-23/google-earth-satellite-ancient-structures/50857592/1



Egyptology News Blog:



http://egyptology.blogspot.com/



Egyptology Blog:



http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/



Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:



http://blog.ritmeyer.com/



Paleojudaica:



http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/



Persepolis Fortification Archives:



http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/



Archaeologist at Large:



http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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Major find of a Roman military camp on the Lippe:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8853054/Lost-Roman-camp-that-protected-against-Germanic-hordes-found.html



On the very edge of our period of purview for this section ... a

proto-Byzantine

martyrion from Cyprus:



http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/cyprus-department-of-antiquities-reveals-proto-byzantine-monument-at-akrotiri-peninsula/



The Paphos Theatre dig on Cyprus has a dig blog:



http://www.paphostheatre.com/paphos-theatre-education-blog.html



Reading a lot into an amphora find at Arbeia Roman Fort:



http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/fort_find_adds_to_potted_history_of_romans_boozing_1_3904282



Recent finds from the Palace of Zakros:



http://greece.greekreporter.com/2011/10/24/news-from-finds-at-the-minoan-palace-of-zakros/



Feature on Septimius Severus:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/29iht-edmeyer29.html



... and one on the 100th anniversary of the LCL:



http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/In-the-Margin/Adam-Kirsch-on-the-Loeb-Classical-Library/ba-p/6057



Ancient history is doing well in schools in Australia:



http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/modern-history-proves-to-be-so-last-century-20111027-1mm7b.html



1930s 'society women' dress as assorted Greek myth folk:



http://flavorwire.com/224624/1930s-society-women-dressed-as-mythological-figures



An Oxford Don is penning an Ode for the upcoming Olympics:



http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/10/27/oxford-don-pens-ode-for-boris/



cf: http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/10/27/primus-a-boris/



Playing the blame game now with that Pompeii wall 'collapse':



http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/uk-italy-pompeii-idUSLNE79N02D20111024



Review of Paul Woodruff, *The Ajax Dilemma*:



http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/10/the_ajax_dilemm.html



Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles* (and more):



http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/28/song-achilles-madeline-miller-iliad



Review of Mathew Dennison, *Livia: Empress of Rome*:



http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2011/10/24/books-livia-empress-of-rome/



Review of Alice Oswald, *Memorial*:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8853326/Memorial-by-Alice-Oswald-reviewal.html



Reviews of *The Swerve*:



http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sirens-call-20111030,0,3471139.story

http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2011/10/stephen_greenblatts_the_swerve.html



Review of Schiff's *Cleopatra*:



http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/24/stacy-schiffs-cleopatra/



More on that Etruscan childbirth scene:



http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/first-western-childbirth-image.html

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/10/blind-archeologist-uncovers-ancient-childbirth-inscription-university-texas-william-nutt-etruscan-/1



Latest reviews from Scholia:



http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/



Latest reviews from BMCR:



http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html



Visit our blog:



http://rogueclassicism.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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Searching for a second passage tomb at Newgrange:



http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/meatheast/articles/2011/10/26/4007335-search-for-second-passage-tomb-at-newgrange/



It apparently took a while for farming to catch on in Europe:



http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/24/food-ancient-cooking-pots-farming

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-cooking-pots-reveal-gradual.html



A Bronze Age "treasure trove" from a Pembrokeshire field:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15493977

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/10/29/bronze-age-treasure-trove-found-in-pembrokeshire-field-91466-29681996/



A site dating to 3500 B.C. or so in Belfast:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15477796



A Viking burial site from the Scottish highlands (we may have had this

last week; I'm somewhat confused among Viking finds of late):



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111023143850.htm



A metal detectorist has found a Viking silver hoard in a field along

the Cumbria-Lancashire border:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15495283

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8852780/Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-Viking-hoard.html



Feature on Linn Duchaill:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15430864



... and more on Viking finds in Ireland (told you I'm confused!):



http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/10/25/Ancient-Viking-settlement-found-in-Ireland/UPI-97891319578517/



An 18th century iron foundry from Ormskirk:



http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2011/10/13/rare-18th-century-iron-foundry-unearthed-in-archaeological-dig-on-church-street-in-ormskirk-80904-29583188/



A Glen Calliche site has been saved from hydro development:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-15496261



Feature on assorted British legends:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15428024



Archaeology in Europe Blog:



http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a shipwreck associated with Kublai

Khan:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15452071

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8848282/13th-century-Mongolian-wreckage-discovered-off-Japanese-seabed.html

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mongolian-kamikaze-japan-coast.html

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1028/1224306622337.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1_fleet-ship-invasion

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/world/asia/japan-archaeology-shipwreck/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/archeologists-believe-shipwreck-found-off-japan-belongs-kublai-145206810.html

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/89163/mongol-shipwreck-found

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/26/japanese-researchers-discover-medieval-mongol-shipwreck/



A Buddha statue from Angkor Wat:



http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-discover-rare-statues-angkor-wat-140243851.html

http://www.allvoices.com//contributed-news/10739124-buddha-is-not-head-discovery-800-years-old



Feature on archaeologist Fan Jinshi:



http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-10/30/content_14002464.htm



Feature on archaeology around that soon-to-be-mining-site in Afghanistan:



http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Afghan-Archeologists-Race-Against-Time-to-Find-Treasures-132702638.html



Humans settled on the Marshall Islands almost as soon as they emerged,

apparently:



http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/humans-do-it-quickly



HMS Sirius has been added to Australia's National Heritage list:



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-25/first-fleet-wreck-added-to-heritage-list/3598648

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/10/26/3348423.htm



East Asian Archaeology:



http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/



Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:



http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/



New Zealand Archaeology eNews:



http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

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NORTH AMERICA

================================================================

Plenty of coverage of the raising of a cannon from the Queen Anne's Revenge:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8851906/Blackbeards-pirate-ship-cannon-recovered-from-ocean.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/27/blackbeard-cannon-wreck-pirate-ship-video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45056443/ns/technology_and_science-science/

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre79q078-us-blackbeard/

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/blackbeards-cannon-salvaged-shipwreck-off-nc-14821505

http://www.newsday.com/news/blackbeard-s-cannon-salvaged-from-shipwreck-off-nc-1.3275512



Some knapped glass turned up at that William & Mary dig:



http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/brafferton-project-unearths-foundations-of-colleges-early-history.php



The Lost Towns project has a dig blog:



http://losttownsproject.blogspot.com/



Feature on the Hopewell earthworks:



http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/23/pilgrimage-unearths-hopewells.html

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/10/fort-ancient-earthworks-place-of.html



Hypish sort of thing for an impending book about the Donner Party:



http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoo-ao102711.php



Feature on the restoration of the Presidio:



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/23/BA941LK8G9.DTL



Review of Richard Brookhiser, *James Madison*:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/james-madison-by-richard-brookhiser-book-review.html



Review of Tony Horwitz, *Midnight Rising*:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/midnight-rising-john-brown-and-the-raid-that-sparked-the-civil-war-by-tony-horwitz-book-review.html



More on pre-Clovis evidence of hunting:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25mastodon.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

================================================================

Evidence of a 'standard measurement unit' at Teotihuacan equivalent to

roughly

83 cm:



http://www.thejapannews.net/story/200516154

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-95735.html

http://in.news.yahoo.com/numerical-pattern-found-ancient-mexican-city-053724854.html



Another Sican tomb from Lambayeque:



http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=8zV4pTCsLEo=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJ9yghKxLI

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-latin-america-15450252



Growing coverage of shipwrecks associated with Francis Drake and/or

his 'final resting place':



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15447632

http://www.keysnet.com/2011/10/29/391585/pat-croce-reports-finding-sir.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting-place.html

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Shipwreck+could+yield+Francis+Drake+coffin/5629214/story.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8857309/Wrecks-that-promise-to-unlock-the-mystery-of-Francis-Drakes-final-resting-place.html



This time, it's a Peruvian mummy that gets the CT treatment:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15486720



Columbia has come out on top in an ownership dispute over the

wreck of the Galleon San Jose:



http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/10/25/court-rules-in-favor-colombia-in-holy-grail-shipwrecks-case/



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri



Ancient MesoAmerica News:



http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

================================================================

Plenty of coverage of the 'cracking' of the Copiale Cipher :



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/california-researchers-crack-secret-society-cipher-142752408.html

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/405424/computer_analysis_online_translator_intelligent_guesses_crack_ancient_german_code/

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-scientist-mysterious-copiale-cipher.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/machine_translation_cracks_occult_code/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025102320.htm



... the paper:



http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-1202.pdf



... page images:



http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf



... English translation:



http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale150.pdf



Apparently Oxbridge students invented 'binge drinking':



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/8851964/Oxbridge-students-invented-binge-drinking-400-years-ago.html



... and Prince Charles is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler:



http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1027/Vlad-the-Impaler-Prince-Charles-a-descendant-of-Dracula



A long-lost manuscript associated with Ben Jonson has been found:



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025113215.htm



A somewhat tantalizing item on NASA's involvement in looking at ancient

texts:



http://galvestondailynews.com/story/268630/



A recently-identified Velazquez has been unveiled:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15474873



Answering the conspiracy theories in *Anonymous*:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/8848884/Only-foolish-snobs-dont-believe-in-William-Shakespeare.html



The history of the signet ring (not sure about some of this):



http://eva-news.com/dating/dating/the-story-of-style-the-history-of-the-signet-ring/23865885/



An interview with Umberto Eco about his latest book:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kwp40



Portsmouth has healed a 'rift' with Carl Roberts over Dickens:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15421286



Pondering difficulties of translation:



http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/19/hard-as-nails-literature-and-translation-today/



Review of David Bellos, *Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/is-that-a-fish-in-your-ear-translation-and-the-meaning-of-everything-by-david-bellos-book-review.html



Interesting feature on the Royal Society's archives:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15445507



... and one on mosaic production in Ravenna:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/28iht-rartravenna28.html



More (slideshow) on Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic:



http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/18/science/20111018-pole.html



More on the Black Death genome:



http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111025/full/478444a.html



Review of Mark Peterson, *Galileo's Muse*:



http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/10/renaissance-learning-that-shaped-galileos-genius.html



Review of David Abulafia, *The Great Sea*:



http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/somewhere-beyond-the-sea-6074



Opeddish thing on Qaddafi and the deaths of tyrants:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/opinion/qaddafi-and-the-lives-of-tyrants.html



Two painters named Church:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/2-painters-named-church-faberge-eggs.html



Review of a couple of books about Dickens:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/books/charles-dickens-by-claire-tomalin-becoming-dickens.html

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

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TOURISTY THINGS

================================================================

Jerash:



http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2576859.ece



Egypt:



http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/26/ancient-egypt-well-worth-seeing



Cape Sounion:



http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2011/10/28/greece-sea-god-site/



Gothic Italy:



http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/a-gothic-tour-of-italy.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-gothic-italy.html



Anhui (China):



http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/in-anhui-china-centuries-old-charm.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/travel/20111030-anhui.html

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BLOGS

================================================================

About.com Archaeology:



http://archaeology.about.com/



Archaeology Briefs:



http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:



http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/



Time Machine:



http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

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CRIME BEAT

================================================================

Two "stone slabs" dating to Assyrian times and had been stolen were

returned to Iraq:



http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/5869096/Ancient-Assyrian-stone-slabs-returned-to-Iraq

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/uk-iraq-artefacts-idUKTRE79Q6GU20111027

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/10893564/ancient-assyrian-stone-slabs-returned-to-iraq/



The Tourisim and Antiquities Police in Egypt recovered some stolen items:



http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/25317/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Stolen-ancient-Egyptian-artefacts-recovered.aspx



Some vandalism at a site in Nine Mile Canyon (Utah):



http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52781695-78/site-canyon-campfire-damage.html.csp



A Picasso thief pleads guilty:



http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/accused-picasso-thief-pleads-guilty/



Looting Matters:



http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/



Illicit Cultural Property:



http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/



Safe Corner:



http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/

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NUMISMATICA

================================================================

(Really) Big bucks for a Cretan stater:



http://www.coinweek.com/news/auctions-news/ancient-cretan-stater-coin-brings-479000-world-record-price-at-morton-eden/



Latest e-sylum:



http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n44.html



... and the one that will come out later today:



http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v14n45.html



Ancient Coin Collecting:



http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/



Ancient Coins:



http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/



Coin Week:



http://www.coinweek.com/================================================================

EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED

================================================================

Islamic Manuscripts:



http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/rare-muslim-manuscripts-go-on-display-at-israel-s-national-library-1.391637



Royal Manuscripts:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8857250/Middle-Ages-illuminated-as-Royal-manuscripts-shine-in-new-exhibition.html



Rembrandt in America:



http://www.reflector.com/news/groundbreaking-rembrandt-exhibit-opens-743479



Archimedes Palimpsest:



http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/events-entertainment/ph-ho-visual-arts-walters-20111025,0,6075072.story

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/26/archimedes-palimpsest-ahead-of-time



Alexander the Great:



http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-25/great-drunk-alexander-gets-louvre-exhibit-of-treasures-review.html



DSS:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/arts/design/the-dead-sea-scrolls-at-discovery-times-square-review.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/29/arts/design/20111030-scroll-ss.html

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/dead_sea_scrolls_are_among_the.html

http://news.discovery.com/history/stone-dead-sea-scrolls-111027.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/scroll_fmj4lTdySYAgxYjDKMiFYN

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/the-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-nyc-20111028

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/28/2011-10-28_dead_sea_scrolls_ancient_pieces_of_hebrew_bible_discovered_in_caves_head_to_time.html



Last Days of Pompeii:



http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/2049/44/



Aphrodite:



http://www.wbur.org/2011/10/26/aphrodite-mfa



Res Mortis:



http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/52796242-81/umfa-roman-utah-greek.html.csp



Davinci and Michelangelo:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSf1CcJPtM&feature=uploademail



Olympia:



http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/10/27/ancient-olympia-exhibition-hosted-at-berlin-and-doha-museums/



Feature on the Met's Islamic galleries:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magazine/at-the-met-a-new-vision-for-islam-in-hostile-times.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/arts/design/the-mets-new-islamic-galleries-review.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/26/new-york-met-islamic-treasures



... slideshow:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/artsspecial/islamic-treasures-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html



A restored Michelangelo painting will soon be on display:



http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Restored-Buffalo-Painting-Set-to-Exhibit-in-Rome-132455568.html



The Prado will be open seven days a week:



http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/prado-to-stay-open-seven-days-a-week/



The book version of *History of the World in 100 Objects* is being

published in the US this

week:



http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/30/arts/20111030_NEIL.html



A sign language tour of the Penn Museum:



http://www.youtube.com/user/pennmuseum#p/c/17/CLCfoWgRtLE



Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews:



http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED

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Arms and the Man:



http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/21303.html



Othello:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-sellarss-othello.html



Anonymous:



http://www.npr.org/2011/10/28/141772025/for-anonymous-scribe-a-shakespearean-speculation

http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/movies/anonymous-by-roland-emmerich-review.html

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/theater-talkback-who-wrote-shakespeare-who-cares/



... and a different Anonymous takes on 13th century nun chants:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/anonymous-4-at-corpus-christi-church-review.html



Songs of Purcell:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/andreas-scholl-and-the-english-concert-review.html



Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/jennifer-koh-at-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-review.html



The Aquila Theatre troupe will be performing at the White House:



http://dc.broadwayworld.com/article/Aquila-Theatres-Ancient-GreeksModern-Lives-to-Perform-at-the-White-House-1116-20111012



Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:



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... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:



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Naked Archaeology Podcast:



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