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    Saturday, May 19th, 2012
    10:03 pm
    From Truth to Praise to Demonization

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/from-truth-to-praise-to-demonization.htm

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    <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/from-truth-to-praise-to-demonization.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/from-truth-to-praise-to-demonization.htm</a></p><div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/f/M/3/Justinian.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:125px;border:none;" /><br/>Emperor Justinian making an offering. &#169; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1638609">NYPL Digital Gallery</a></div> Procopius was a Byzantine official and historian, author of a history of the wars and a panegyric on Justinian's building ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/from-truth-to-praise-to-demonization.htm">Read Full Post</a></p>
    3:36 pm
    Roman Castles Before the Middle Ages

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/roman-castles-before-the-middle-ages.htm

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    <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/roman-castles-before-the-middle-ages.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/roman-castles-before-the-middle-ages.htm</a></p><div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/a/M/3/RomanFortess.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;border:none;" /><br/> "Bad Homburg - Saalburg Roman Fort Reconstructed" <br />CC Flickr User <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/with/3008882933/">roger4336</a> </div> While castles spring up everywhere in medieval history, they predate the Middle Ages, and even the Roman ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/19/roman-castles-before-the-middle-ages.htm">Read Full Post</a></p>
    Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
    7:43 am
    On This Day in Ancient History - A 14-Year-Old Became Emperor

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm

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    <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm</a></p><div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/2/s/2/elagabalus.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:158px;border:none;" /><br/>Elagablus Coin<BR> &#169; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/1194936906/">Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities</a></div> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/bltdih070516.htm">On this day in ancient Roman History</a> - May 15: <BR>He ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm">Read Full Post</a></p>
    6:42 am
    Guess Who

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/16/guess-who-68.htm


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    Hints:

    1.) Facing right is Socrates. You are to guess the man facing the left.

    2.) Last week's Classics feel good story Columbia University custodian to graduate after 12 years of part-time study (courtesy of the Rogue Classicist) features a man who graduated from Columbia with a degree in Classics and a senior paper on this man.

    Answer

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    Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
    8:43 pm
    These Are Pairs of ... ?

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/15/these-are-pairs-of.htm

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    <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/15/these-are-pairs-of.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/15/these-are-pairs-of.htm</a></p><div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/Y/J/2/BoreasOrithuia.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;border:none;" /><br/> &#169; Clipart.com</div> Guess what these pairs of names have in common. <UL><LI>Leuconotus and Altanus<LI>Libonotus and Subvesperus<LI>Argestes and Etesiae<LI>Circias and Corus<LI>Thracias and Gallicus<LI>Supernas and Caecias<LI>Carbas and Ornithiae<LI>Eurocircias and Volturnus</li></ul> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE= "javaScript" SRC="http://guidepolls.about.com/ancienthistory/7128192430/poll.js?linkback=<!--#echo var="SCRIPT_URI" -n-->"></script> <p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romangods/f/4Winds.htm">Answer</a> <P><b>Related:</b> <ul> <LI><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/zeusmyth/tp/bl_zeus_divine_liaisons.htm">Zeus' Mates and Children</a> <LI><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/godsandgoddesses/a/Nymphs.htm">Names and Types of Nymphs</a> <LI><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aresmarsmyth/a/102110-Mars-And-Venus-Caught-In-A-Net.htm">Mars and Venus Caught in a Net</a> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romangods/f/4Winds.htm">The 4 Roman Winds</a> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/plutarch/p/Plutarch.htm">Plutarch</a></ul> <p><div style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; background-color: #f7f7ef; font-size: 0.8em;"> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm">Sign up for my free, weekly Ancient/Classical History newsletter</a></div>
    Monday, May 14th, 2012
    6:55 am
    Myth Monday - The First Tyrant

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/14/myth-monday-the-first-tyrant.htm

    Candaules, His Wife, and Gyges by William Etty 1820
    Candaules, His Wife, and Gyges by William Etty 1820
    PD Courtesy of Wikipedia</br>

    Today's Myth Monday features a story about the first tyrant known to the Greeks. It could be based on history, since the main male character is, but the actual coup is very unlikely to have happened in this way.

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    Myth Monday - The First Tyrant originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 06:55:59.

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    Sunday, May 13th, 2012
    9:31 am
    Do You Know the Connection Between Immolation and Salted Cakes?

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/13/do-you-know-the-connection-between-immolation-and-salted-cakes.htm

    On This Day in Ancient History - May 13:
    Vestal Virgins worked on the mola salsa, the Romans' sacred salted cake. In her online article on mola salsa, author Caroline Tully cites Robin Lorsch Wildfang's book on Vestal Virgins to say that this was one of the days on which the Vestal Virgins gathered unripe spelt to use in the mola salsa. The grain would then

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    Do You Know the Connection Between Immolation and Salted Cakes? originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Sunday, May 13th, 2012 at 09:31:16.

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    Friday, May 11th, 2012
    11:13 pm
    Who Said It?

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/11/who-said-it-37.htm

    "Audentes deus ipse iuvat!"
    God himself favors the brave.

    Answer.

    Read more quotations by this author. (Includes translation and citation.)

    8:55 am
    He Founded the City That Became the Capital of the Byzantine Empire

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/11/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-16.htm

    On This Day in Ancient History - May 11:
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    Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
    6:55 am
    On this Day in Ancient History - Beans Appeased the Dead

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/09/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-15.htm

    On This Day in Ancient History - May 9:
    In ancient Rome, Romans appeased the spirits of the dead with beans. This was part of the Lemuria or Lemuralia, which ...

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    6:55 am
    Guess Who

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/09/guess-who-67.htm

    Polyphemus hears the arrival of Galatea. Roman fresco
    CC Wikipedia User Stefano Bolognini

    Hint: The picture doesn't show the signal detail usually associated with the male.

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    Answer

    Last week's answer: Alexander the Great as the sun god Helios/Helius.

    Related:
  • The Trojan War
  • Top Heroes
  • Development of the Greek Alphabet
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    Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
    4:08 pm
    Roman Travel

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/08/roman-travel.htm

    What would it have been like to travel through the Roman Empire? You wouldn't need a companion to try to figure out which direction to turn a fragile map repeatedly ...

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    Monday, May 7th, 2012
    6:55 am
    Myth Monday - Hercules the Giant-Killer

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/07/myth-monday-hercules-the-giant-killer.htm

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    <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/07/myth-monday-hercules-the-giant-killer.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/07/myth-monday-hercules-the-giant-killer.htm</a></p><div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/hercules/a/Hercules.htm"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/r/v/2/170px-Herakles_Alkyoneus_Cdm_Paris_322.jpg" alt="Hercules Fighting Alcyoneus" ="width:170px;height:138px;border:none;"="=&quot;width:170px;height:138px;border:none;&quot;" /></a><br/>Hercules / Heracles Fighting Alcyoneus<br />Courtesy <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herakles_Alkyoneus_Cdm_Paris_322.jpg">Bibi Saint-Pol</a></div><p> Although it is hard to pin down a <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/whatismyth.htm">definition of myths</a>, one thing they're not is objectively factual. Thus, there are often conflicting versions and repeated elements. This week's <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/hercules/a/Hercules.htm">Hercules / Heracles</a> episode is a case in point. Alcyoneus was a giant, the son of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/g/Gaia.htm">Gaia</a>.... <p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/herculesarticles/ss/50712-Myth-Monday-Hercules-the-Giant-Killer.htm">Read more: Hercules the Giant-Killer</a>. <p><div style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; background-color: #f7f7ef; font-size: 0.8em;"> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&amp;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm">Sign up for my free, weekly Ancient/Classical History newsletter</a></div>
    Sunday, May 6th, 2012
    12:21 pm
    How Roman women got around the banking system : Past Horizons Archaeology

    http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2012/05/06/how-roman-women-got-around-the-banking-system-past-horizons-archaeology.htm

    FromHow Roman women got around the banking system : Past Horizons Archaeology.

    "Lazarus concludes that the activity of women in the business sector in ancient Rome went far beyond lending as there is frequent written evidence of women participating in the world of commerce and business. Women headed shipping, textile manufacturing and footwear companies, they traded in luxury goods and food products or even managed accommodation businesses."

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