Delphi Will Burn
According to a piece at ABC, plans are afoot to burn a bunch of the pine trees around Delphi — back in 1936, some 6500 pines were planted at the site. The idea is to try to avoid what happened at Olympia a couple of years ago. … sounds like a bit of foresight. Trees [...]
Spring Awakening
First Fascinating Aida (see below) and now a review of Spring Awakening in the Independent. While most of the description would probably bring hits to rc for all the wrong reasons, I can’t help but wonder about this: Kevin Adams’s outstanding lighting is a constellation of bare lightbulbs – now the heavens, now the class [...]
Anna Perenna
Here’s one from L’espresso which goes beyond brief mention and hopefully we’ll read about this one in the English press (because we should! I was unaware of all this for some reason) … back in 1999 at Monti Parioli archaeologists found a pile of artifacts in a fountain dedicated to Anna Perenna dating from the [...]
Fascinating Aida?
A music/performance review from the Times was snagged by one of the spiders … check this paragraph out: They have pared the show to two costume changes a night. A blend of subtlety and showmanship, strong opinions and sharp wit, erudition and free-for-all, Fascinating Aïda’s new songs are full of what they call “twisted zaniness” [...]
Denmark v Italy
The Copenhagen Post relates what appears to be the next repatriation case … here’s the salient bit: The issue first came to light in 2006 when Italy requested the return of six Etruscan pieces from the museum in connection with an international operation against an illegal art dealing syndicate. But for more than two years [...]
CFP: Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic
CALL FOR PAPERS Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic An international conference to be held in Oxford on 1-3 September 2010 Oratory played a central part in the political life of the Roman Republic, where popular decision-making and aristocratic dominance intersected to create a fertile environment for persuasive speech. This conference brings together a [...]
CONF: Exercise of Power in Sicily
Between Ideal and Reality Exercise of Power in Sicily from Antiquity to Early Modern Times From February 13th to February 15th, the Institute of History of the University of Aachen (Theaterplatz 14, 52062 Aachen, Germany) will be hosting a conference on „Exercise of Power in Sicily from Antiquity to Early Modern Times”. Everyone interested in [...]
