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Political absenteeism in ancient Athens
The vastly celebrated Athenian democracy, still nowadays almost unanimously considered as the mother of all the modern forms of government unfortunately had its own flaws, perhaps less grave in terms … more →
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Analysis: The Aeneid
C.J. Chanco wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia Greatness comes at a hefty price, “all great triumphs arise from great tragedies … more →
An extremely useful epigraphical tool
Jona Lendering wrote 1 month ago: IRT 607 One of the most useful websites I know is the Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (EDCS), main … more →
Roman Inscriptions
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Jona Lendering wrote 2 months ago: Inscription of an officer of III Cyrenaica, found near the Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella. You don … more →
Review Essay on "The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
silverwings777 wrote 4 months ago: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Anyone first introduced to the impassioned prose of Carl … more →
New in the Antiquaries' Shoebox
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Jona Lendering wrote 4 months ago: Drawing of a pyxis from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities Several years ago, Lac … more →
Common Errors (19): Vespasian
Jona Lendering wrote 5 months ago: Vespasian (Museo Arqueológico, Sevilla) After their death, good Roman emperors were venerated as god … more →
Caesar's Gallic War
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Jona Lendering wrote 5 months ago: A young (and unshaven) Julius Caesar (Museum of Corinth) I’ve made several small additions to … more →
Common Errors (9): The Gnostic Gospels
Jona Lendering wrote 6 months ago: The Council of Nicaea: fresco at the Soumela Monastery (Turkey) Every now and then, the argument ret … more →
The Antiquary's Shoebox
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Jona Lendering wrote 6 months ago: Drawing of a pyxis from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities Several years ago, Lac … more →
A glut of Tacitus
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Bill Thayer wrote 7 months ago: I’ve now delivered on my threat of some time back: Tacitus’ Annals are now online on Lac … more →
Political absenteeism in ancient Athens
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stoa wrote 8 months ago: The vastly celebrated Athenian democracy, still nowadays almost unanimously considered as the mother … more →
The death of Philip II: a cold case
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stoa wrote 9 months ago: The death of Philip II of Macedonia is permeated by particularly mystifying circumstances and most l … more →
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Bill Thayer wrote 9 months ago: Sheep … or Anything Except Proofreading Tacitus: the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus are up, in … more →
Heroic virtues in the Homeric world
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stoa wrote 9 months ago: The Homeric poems and some legends and myths narrated by posthumous authors are the only literary so … more →
The women of Heinrich Schliemann
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stoa wrote 10 months ago: On Christmas 1890 in Piazza Carità in Naples, Italy an unknown lonely old gentleman dressed in simpl … more →
Tacitus
Jona Lendering wrote 1 year ago: Domitian (Museo Arqueológico, Sevilla, Spain) The Roman historian Tacitus (c.55-c.120) wrote three d … more →
More Florus
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Bill Thayer wrote 1 year ago: Florus’ Epitome has now been joined onsite at LacusCurtius by The poems of Florus: original La … more →
Florus
Bill Thayer wrote 1 year ago: Florus’ Epitome is now online at LacusCurtius: original Latin, and the English translation by … more →
Merciful Odysseus absolves his loyal servants
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stoa wrote 1 year ago: In book 22nd of Odyssey Ulysses massacres one hundred and eight of his wife’s suitors, dreadfully ha … more →
