Michael Jackson’s Cleopatra
Here’s something I didn’t know … this well-known (to Classicists, anyway) painting of Cleopatra’s death by D. Pauvert: … is currently owned by the monogloved-one. Somehow I always thought MJ would have some ‘connection’ to Cleo … whatever the case, he’s putting this one up for auction. Market News: Michael Jackson’s painting of Cleopatra (Telegraph)
Chimera of Arezzo Coming to the Getty
I’m sure we’ll hear more of this as the date approaches, but there’s already a fair bit of coverage. Here’s the incipit of the LA Times’ coverage: The J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, Italy, have entered into a long-term cultural collaboration that will bring one of the latter’s most [...]
APOD: Temple of Apollo at Naxos
From NASA, of course … a nice photo suitable for wallpapering: Full size here (I think) …
Uma Medusa?
Tip o’ the pileus to Dorothy King for directing my caerulean brow towards this … there’s an interesting fantasy type movie in the works called Percy Jackson, with a definite Classical twist … here’s the brief coverage from the Telegraph: As a teenager, Uma Thurman was cast as Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, [...]
Recreating Gladiatorial Weapons
A series called Deadliest Warrior is coming to Spike TV which, apparently, will include some recreations of gladiatorial weaponry and demonstrations of it in action. I’ll try to embed a video here of same (but it was having difficulties yesterday): Deadliest Warrior | | SPIKE.com If it doesn’t show up for you, here’s a link [...]
The End of the Printed Scholarly Tome?
Interesting item from Inside Higher Education … here’s the incipit: The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes [...]
Earth Hour
Nice to ‘see’ the Parthenon in its original ‘context’:
Triangular Temple from Cyprus
StonePages had this at the beginning of the month, but it doesn’t seem to have hit the ‘English press’ until recently. Italian archaeologists working on Cyprus have excavated a triangular-shaped (!) temple at Pyrgos-Mavroraki believed to date to around 2,000 BC (which would make it the oldest temple on Cyprus; the jury’s still out on that [...]
Pompeii Tidbits
An item in Adnkronos about a theme parkish thing called Italia in Miniatura includes this little item at the end: But there is still more to come and soon Italia in Miniatura will be expanding and the expansion of the theme park means double the surface area and the introduction of extraordinary interactive attractions, first [...]
Happy 2000th Vespasian
Rome is marking Vespasian’s 2000th birthday with a special exhibition and there’s a pile of news coverage too, of course … I like the conclusion to the Independent’s piece: To mark Vespasian’s big day, Rome is breathing new life into the ancient city he did so much to change. Busts, bas-reliefs, weapons, coins and paintings [...]
Breviaria Latina
Assorted Latin excerpts and tidbits … The Seattle PI had a nice feature on the resurgence of Latin … including this incipit: The old men in togas. The mindless verbal recitation. The archaic prose. No wonder Latin gets such a bad rap. Latin and ancient Greek once were considered part of a basic education, but [...]
Junior Classical League Coverage
I always find it interesting that newspapers even cover this at all … some excerpts from assorted reports … From the Nevada coverage: Not only is Latin not dead, it’s making a comeback, said Sherry Jankowski, Meadows Latin teacher and league state chairwoman. Some teachers believe that as the basis for western European languages and [...]
Classicists in the News
Assorted tidbits that have accumulated over the past while … Timothy Howe is amongst a handful who were granted tenure at St. Olaf: St. Olaf announces faculty promotions, tenure Peter Struck was talking about ‘Ancient Heroes and Superheroes’ in an appropriate venue: Batman, Superman leap off the page at Penn Museum superhero event Marie Bolchazy [...]
Exhibition: Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure …
Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems March 19-September 7, 2009 Getty Villa The official webpage includes several nice photos (with descriptions) of assorted items from the exhibition and there’s a short little video demonstrating gem-carving techniques (I’ve always wondered about that). There are some audio commentaries which require you to have RealPlayer [...]
On TV: Druidic Human Sacrifice?
On the National Geographic Channel tonight is a potentially interesting show about the Druids and evidence of human sacrifice by them in Roman times. They’ve got a video teaser of Caesar meeting the Druids… There’s also a lengthy text accompanying that (and another video) which starts with the evidence from Lindow Man and then goes [...]
Persian Treasures in the Black Sea?
This is another one of those weird claims … according to a brief item in Standart: The countless treasures of Persia seized by Alexander the Great, are buried at the bottom of the Black Sea at Kaliakra Cape, said oceanographer from the city of Varna Trayan Trayanov yesterday. Recently the Space Research Institute in Moscow confirmed [...]
CONF: Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, and Science
Conference Programme 6 July 11.00 Registration11.45-12.45 Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s, Ontario), ‘Soul in a World withoutSpirit: The Ethics of Sensation in an Inanimate Universe’12.45-1.40 Lunch1.40-2.40 Monte Johnson (California-San Diego), ‘Lucretius and the cause ofspontaneity’2.40-3.40 James Hankinson (Texas-Austin), title tbc3.40-4.00 Tea4.00-5.00 David Konstan (Brown), ‘Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitudetoward Grief’ 7 July 9.30-10.30 Monica Gale (Trinity College, [...]
CONF: Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature
*Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009: “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature”University College London, 7–9 July 2009 (Archaeology Lecture Theatre)* It is a great pleasure to announce that the annual Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009 will be coming to London this year.It will discuss the topic of “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature” and [...]
CONF: Integration and Diversity in the Culture and Religions …
Integration and Diversity in the Culture and Religions of Late AntiquityUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 21-24, 2009www.LA-network.com organized byMichael Kulikowski, Knoxville, and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Heidelberg We are pleased to announce the first workshop of the International Network for the Study of Late Antiquity: “Centralization and Particularism in Late Antiquity,” which will take place at the [...]
CONF: Pennsylvania Classical Association Institute
PCA Institute, Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, 2009. Friday, March 27:3:00-5:00 p.m. Reading the Latin Hexameter Workshop, Stephen Daitz6:30-7:00 Welcoming reception7:00-8:00 Buffet Dinner. Report from the Governor’s Institute for World Language Teacher, Mary Redline and Eleanor Brinker Saturday, March 28:8:00-10:00 a.m. Mythology and [...]
CONF: Classical Association of MA
CAM Spring MeetingSaturday, April 4, 2009 CAM is pleased to offer its annual spring meeting, entitled “Nunc Te,Bacche, Canam”, at Westport Rivers Vineyards in Westport, MA. The tentativeschedule is as follows: 9:30 10:00 Arrival and Continental Breakfast 10:00 Tour of the Vineyards led by Westport Rivers Staff 10:45 Wine Tasting (Not Falernian or Livia¹s [...]
Rebuilding the Mausoleum?
First we hear about the Artemesion … now it’s the Mausoleum the erstwhile wonder … the incipit from Hurriyet: The mayor of Bodrum has announced that the city will build a model of King Mausolus’ Mausoleum, which is considered seven wonders of the ancient world. Bodrum Mayor Mazlum Ağan, who has held his post for [...]
Exhibition: Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens
Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens December 10, 2008 – May 9, 2009 Onassis Cultural Center New York, New York Official website here (just general information). Reviews: The Glory That Was Greece From a Female Perspective (New York Times) previous aggregation of links at our old rogueclassicism site (we’ve mentioned this exhibition before; [...]
Business Saving Classics at UIC?
I thought we had mentioned the problems at UIC before, but I can’t seem to find it. In any event, here’s a very interesting item from the Chicago Flame: In an effort to heighten student interest in the university’s small but well-recognized Classics department, a recent alumnus has organized a team of 24 business students [...]
Greek Fisherman Nets a Bronze
Plenty of coverage of this one, but all the coverage is brief and apparently derived from an AP wire story. A fisherman working between Kos and Kalymnos hauled up his net and found it contained (as was later determined) a section of a bronze equestrian statue dating to the second century B.C.. The statue is [...]
