Marble Head of a Boxer (Maybe) Found in Israel
Rather amazing how much press coverage there is for this already. A small figurine, dating from the second or third century, depicting what is believed to be a boxer or at least an athlete, has been found during the course of a dig in the City of David. Dixit Dr. Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets [...]
Zeus on Mount Lykaion Redux
Not sure why this is in the news again; we heard about it last September and even back in January, to some extent. Dixit David Romano: “What’s new is this mountaintop altar had cult activity that’s continuous from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods.” … which is what we were told a year ago. Some [...]
Another Auction
Yesterday I was wading through a pile of Roman glass etc. (none of which was very interesting) and decided I wasn’t going to cover auctions any more. Then, of course, something interesting came up from the Ventura County Collection again, via Bonham’s. Here’s an item at Live Auctioneers officially described as Roman, c. 100-300AD., a [...]
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which [...]
Classical Words of the Day
ex libris (Wordsmith) vacuous (Dictionary.com) implacable (Merriam-Webster)
CONF: Shifting Frontiers
Shifting Frontiers VIII
CONF: Legacy of Alexander the Great
THE LEGACY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Third Workshop on Hellenistic History, Culture and Society The Impact of Hellenism Friday, 13 February 2009, Humanities Graduate School, School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, 12 Abercromby Square, Liverpool This workshop, hosted by the School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology The University of Liverpool 12-14 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 [...]
CONF: Phaedrus Colloquium
Colloquium on Plato’s Phaedrus, April 16th-18th 2009 Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge The Phaedrus is one of Plato’s most explicitly ‘literary’ dialogues, both in the sense that it is crafted in a particularly ingenious fashion and in so far as it explicitly discusses the worth of literature, especially as a medium for philosophy. Of [...]
