DSS Exhibition Tempest Brewing?
Somewhat tangential to our purview, but dealing with an exhibition I”m likely to go to (the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum), we are just starting to hear rumblings of this … an excerpt from the Toronto Star: The Conservative government is staying mum on a letter from senior Palestinian officials opposing a [...]
300 Se/Pre/Interquel Gossip
Excerpt from a piece at MTV’s Splashpage: About a year ago, news broke that Frank Miller was developing a “300” quasi-sequel. Snyder, who was in Las Vegas this week to pick up a Director of the Year award at ShoWest, revealed that he has indeed heard Miller’s idea for a graphic novel about the events [...]
Domus Aurea Closed? Open?
A rogueclassicism reader writes to ask whether the Domus Aurea has reopened yet and whether reservations to visit can be made. I do know the DA closed last December when flooding intervened, but I can’t find any mention of it reopening. Anyone know? Please answer in the comments.
Skull-a-Day Ad for Pompeii?
One of the nice things about these four-day weekends is that I have time to check out things that are of interest to me. In this case, an item in the LA Times blog notes (inter alia): Chalk it up to an over-eager marketing team at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On Wednesday, [...]
From the Horatii to Cleopatra
Here’s an interesting bit of synchronicity … my spiders picked up a piece in the Independent which is about Giotto’s Lamentation of Christ … the incipit, however, is rather more in the purview of this blog: There is also anachronism in viewing. We can’t help looking at pictures through our own later eyes. We see [...]
More Clash of the Titans
Last week the details began to leak out … this week, we get some more. The incipit of a brief item from Reuters: Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes will play warring gods in “Clash of the Titans,” an Olympian epic that starts shooting later this month Neeson is playing Zeus, the wise yet sometimes ill-tempered [...]
Queen Victoria’s Brackets
Pity I missed this … Apollo seems to have a pretty easy trip both in the Olympus and Roman divisions; I figure him against Colbert in the final New Adventures of Queen Victoria
