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The Brygos skyphos- what’s he hiding?

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The Brygos painter is a celebrated name attached to a number of Athenian pieces dating to the early 5th century BC. On occasion artists might sign their pieces, but this was something potters might do as well. As such Brygos could be the name of the potter, and to complicate things further it could even …

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An Etruscan helmet with a message.

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Sometimes an object give us an insight into the past which isn’t initially obvious and here is one such example. The helmet below is a bronze Etruscan one, it dates to circa 500 BC and is doubtless a fascinating object purely on this basis alone. However, as you can see there’s an inscription on the …

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Cleaning the lorica segmentata.

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Owning armour means you are always trying to maintain it and it’s an ongoing fight with rust. Lorica segmentata was one type of armour which the armies of ancient Rome wore – we have some surviving pieces of it from the Corbridge hoard. This was an incredible find and I will have to visit the …

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Bees BC – episode notes

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I hope you enjoyed the episode and here is the extra content. I mentioned an episode all about Mad Honey at the end of it and here’s a link to it. https://ancientblogger.libsyn.com/mad-honey Images.   Below is a diagram of the earliest depiction of apiculture in Egypt. Here’s a good site with a bit more about …

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88 BC, Mithridates VI and a massacre.

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(this piece contains some nasty incidents- just so you know). In 133 BC King Attalus III of Pergamon died. His lands in the west of Anatolia (including coastal areas) weren’t passed to an heir, Attalus III had none. Instead he left his kingdom to Rome and it became the new province of Asia. Though this …

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The Panagyurishte Treasure.

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 In 1949 three brothers in Panagyurishte,  a small Bulgarian town southeast of the capital Sofia, came across a number of  artefacts whilst digging for clay. In total the nine objects weighed in at just over 6kg. They were made of 24-karat gold, though their worth cannot be measured on this alone. The Panagyurishte treasure, as …

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Hannibal: from Cannae to Zama episode notes

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I hope the below helps with giving more context to the episode on Hannibal and his exploits from the highs of Cannae through to the lows of Zama. In the episode I mentioned previous episodes I have done on Hannibal and his battles (and much more). Here are some links to them. Hannibal in Spain. …

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Persia to Greece (British Museum).

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Whenever I get the chance I like to jump on the train and make a visit to the British Museum. It’s not just a trip, it’s a walk down memory lane. I studied for my part time MA nearby at Birkbeck and spent many an hour wandering around the place. This year I took the chance …

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Greek Goddess Barbie.

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Something I stumbled upon many years ago was that Barbie released a Greek Goddess series in 2008. Three figures from Greek myth got the treatment, the dolls designed by Linda Kyaw. Here they are. Medusa. Curiously the first released in 2008 was Medusa, a character notable for not being a Greek goddess. In recent times …

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The Iliad and a sporting controversy.

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You may not think of sports when considering the Iliad. Homer’s great work centres on the infighting and fighting at Troy. However, even back then there was time for some sporting drama. It started during the funeral games for Patroclus. Here Achilles organised a chariot race with five prizes and five charioteers step forward. First …

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Bees BC: Bees and honey in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece.
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Bees and honey have been incredibly important for different peoples for a long, long time. In this episode I discuss exactly how bees were kept, how honey was produced and what it was used for. I also get into how the bee manifested in different cultures.

Episode notes, including a transcript at www.ancientblogger.com

Music by Brakhage (Le Vrai Instrumental).

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Bees BC: Bees and honey in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece.
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