Yves Saint Laurent Classical Content?
While most of the news this past week about the auction of Yves Saint Laurent’s extensive collection focussed on some possibly-purloined Chinese items, I did search to see if there was anything genuinely ancient in the collection (plenty of stuff from the 17th and 18th century with Classical themes, to be sure) but all I [...]
Rhesus Pieces
The Standard Freeholder ponders the meaning of pH and Rh … the latter is of interest to us: The technical “Rh factor” refers to a protein characteristic of blood. The blood of about 85 percent of the world’s population is Rh positive while that of the other approximately 15 percent is Rh negative (lacking the [...]
Unsubmerging Alexandria
We’ve heard about this one before and it’s back (coincidentally, so is the piece which is below this one). Excerpts from a piece in the Guardian: Some of the world’s most exciting sunken treasures could soon be on view after Egypt confirmed plans to build a giant underwater museum in the Mediterranean. But as preparation [...]
Unsubmerging Seuthopolis?
The incipit of a piece in TopNews suggests: Discovered under centuries-old layers of dirt in 1948, then submerged under 20 metres of water, the ancient city of Seuthopolis is to emerge once again in a bold rescue project. The magnificently preserved city, founded by the Thracian king Seuthes III in 323 BC, was discovered in [...]
I Can Has Autograph?
In a piece about the sorts of folks who hound celebrities for autographs, Barry Koltnow writes in the Orange County Register, inter alia: After all, autograph-collecting (philography) has been practiced since the ancient Greeks, although I doubt whether any Greek would have asked Paris Hilton for an autograph. Unlike most of our ‘origins’ commentary, this [...]
George Orwell on Antiquity
Not sure why, but Sfera online has a big excerpt from George Orwell’s essay on the Spanish War … inter alia he ponders the notion that we want to believe that a system founded on slavery has to eventually collapse, but notes that some civilizations founded on slavery endured for thousands of years. Then an [...]
Non timeo dhl et dona ferentes
Hat tip to eternallycool for this awesome ad for the DHL delivery folks:
Battlestar Galactica and the Aeneid
Okay … I’m officially confused about this one. For reasons unknown, it is being presented as something ‘new’ and hitherto unheard of that Battlestar Galactica (presumably the new one) is actually a retelling of the Aeneid. Charlotte Higgins’ latest blog at the Guardian includes this bit: Now, am I the only person who regards the [...]
Kizilburun Shipwreck
Not sure how I’ve missed the scattered news reports on this one over the past few years, but the Kizilburun Shipwreck ‘dig’ seems to be rather significant. As the name might suggest, the site is off the coast of western Turkey and is largely the project of Deborah Carlson (and others) from Texas A&M. The [...]
Neutron Analysis
Last week there were piles of stories in the press about the utility of the ISIS Neutron scanning technology for various matters archaeological. Now Science Daily has come out with a piece that is closer to our purview with a report on plans to scan some bronze artifacts from a couple of high-status Roman pit [...]
JOB: Generalist @ Union College (one year)
The Department of Classics at Union College seeks to appoint a classicist for a one-year visiting appointment at the rank of instructor or assistant professor. This is a one-year sabbatical replacement that will begin in September 2009. The area of specialization is open, but we look for evidence of successful beginning language instruction as well [...]
Assorted Jobs
Lectureship in Greek Philosophy (UCL) Lectureship in Roman History (St Andrews) APA/AIA PLACEMENT SERVICE POSITIONS FOR CLASSICISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS (February)
