Posted on 05/05/2024 7:55:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists from the University of Tokyo have worked at the Somma Vesuviana site since 2002 but only announced their discovery of the earlier villa in April this year.Image credit: © 2024 Institute for Advanced Global Studies, University of Tokyo; (CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED)
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha:
Most of the Nola keyword is about New Orleans; here's the ones that are not, sorted:
Did they find the poisoned fig trees that killed him?
“Don’t eat the figs.”
Suetonius
The original boy named Sue
:)
Pingus
The buried cities of Vesuvius are the gift that keeps on giving. The cities of Stabiae, Herculaneum and Oplontis are really yielding some great stuff.
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I saw that portrayed in I Claudius years ago Is that how he actually died?
LOL. Me too. That's why I said it.
Livia Drusila / Julia Augustus was a powerful woman and political schemer, suspected by Roman historians of being involved in the deaths of several political rivals, but I don't believe anyone at the time claimed she actually killed Augustus Caesar
There is another series that ran the last few years about Augustus and Livia But they didn’t keep running them till their deaths. Maybe they will finish it and maybe I will remember it. LOL
Yup. The late Michael Grant did a couple of survey books, “The Cities of Vesuvius” and one about the naughty art that’s in a adults-only gallery in the museum of Naples.
Olivia must have been visiting that day.
Brian Blessing was great in that role. George Baker was good as Tiberius too.
Just saw that Bernard Hill died today. Played a great Duke of Norfolk in Wolf Hall. Also played captain of Titanic, and King in LOTR.
thanx
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