On the off-chance that anyone might know this: I'm trying to track down the family connection between Valeria Messallina, infamous wife of the emperor...
... Less clear than I thought - I have apparently conflated Messalla, consul suffectus in 32 BCE, with Messalla Corvinus, consul in 31. I'm going to have to...
I'm teaching a community course the first half of this summer and I've run into a problem. Modern novels set in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ...
Tammy J Eckhart
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Mar 3, 2002 4:44 pm
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What about the wildly popular The Red Tent by Anita Diamond, Molly Levine...
Myerowitz@...
Mar 3, 2002 11:50 pm
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Is there a webpage, or some other announcement, that gives full information about the next Berkshires Conf.? Many thanks! JohnY ...
With apologies for the necessity of cross-posting ... ========================= The first keyboard musical instrument ever devised was the hydraulis, invented...
Call for Papers: The Seventh Gender and Archaeology Conference invites papers for its meeting to be held October 4-5, 2002 at Sonoma State University, CA. The ...
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
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Mar 6, 2002 5:47 pm
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Queenmaker: a novel of King David's queen by India Edghill is a good read. If you are also considering non- fiction Sarah the Priestess by Savina J. Teubal is...
Dee Poth
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Mar 6, 2002 11:08 pm
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Judith: Thanks! ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Department of Classics and Program in the Humanities & Western Civilization 2083 Wescoe Hall ...
... So I've ordered a copy to check it out. I really wanted to stay away from anything with a heavy religious context for this particular course but these...
Tammy J Eckhart
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Mar 7, 2002 2:09 pm
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Sometime, in hallowed antiquity, someone on Anahita sent out a list of ancient historical novels by culture - Greece, Egypt, etc. Does anyone remember. I...
BisnoCC@...
Mar 7, 2002 11:43 pm
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Can anyone let me know of the real, as opposed to the mythical, origins of the menorah, the traditional Jewish candelabra? When ar the earliest illustrations...
Don Bloom
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Mar 8, 2002 7:14 pm
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The Anchor Bible Dictionary volume 4, pages 141-143, has a nice article under "Lampstand" and gives some bibliography. Richard Whitekettle ... Can anyone let...
Richard Whitekettle
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Mar 8, 2002 9:09 pm
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bloom@... writes: << Can anyone let me know of the real, as opposed to the mythical, origins of the menorah, the traditional Jewish candelabra? When ar...
MillerJimE@...
Mar 9, 2002 7:29 am
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Greetings fellow listers: I wanted to let folk know that Yahoo will be down for a bit this weekend. I enclose the official message: Dear Yahoo! Groups...
Hi Fellow Listmembers, My name is Joy and I would like to invite you to join my yahoo egroup Antiquestnetbooks. Members will receive regular postings of new...
The Stoa Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of "Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane," edited by Cathy Calloway,...
Ross Scaife
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Apr 2, 2002 3:13 pm
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Dear Ross: I was glad to see that you are continuing to publish electronically. You and I had discussed putting one of my articles on-line last year. In the...
Barbara Lesko
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Apr 3, 2002 2:24 pm
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This is a forwarded message From: Jennifer Scott <jennifer.scott@...> To: Anahita-l-owner@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:41:39 PM ...
Can anyone recommend any books that cover in any detail the Libyan Amazons?
I have a professor in Libya who has contacted me hoping to find some
information,...
Good morning from Athens.:-) I am moderating a forum on History of Food and I was looking on who is the "Mysterious" Marie who gave her name to the double...
Vivian Efthymiopoulou...
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Apr 12, 2002 10:10 am
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I, for one, have never seen a reference to amazons in Libya. Thought they lived much further east!...
Barbara Lesko
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Apr 12, 2002 1:18 pm
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... The ancient locus classicus for Libyan Amazons is Diod. Sic. 3.53-54. The Budé edition gives some useful leads on scholarship.See also P. Devambez and A....
Peter Green
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Apr 12, 2002 1:42 pm
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... The Diodorus Siculus passage Prof. Green mentioned is reproduced in an English translation of unspecified origin (the Loeb, perhaps) on several "did...
One reference to Libyan Amazons, cited by Diodoros (3.53.3), who was citing Dionysios Skythobrachion, says that Libyan Amazons had no breasts at all, rather...
Marilyn Goldberg
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Apr 12, 2002 1:58 pm
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I have read that the vessel was invented by Maria Prophetissa, who was also responsible for the axiom of the Four and One, and other alchemical principals;...
