Movie Gossip
There was quite a bit of movie gossip this past week … First, from the Hollywood Reporter (and other sources) we hear of a movie-to-be called Odysseus … inter alia: Warners is going back to ancient Greece, winning a major spec script bidding war to pick up “Odysseus,” written by Ann Peacock, with Jonathan Liebesman [...]
ED: Iris Festival
The Iris Festival for inner London schools 17-19th June, 2009 The Scoop at More London The Iris Festival is a free three-day festival of Classics, run by educational charity The Iris Project (www.irismagazine.org), including plays and performances of Greek drama by London state schools from London’s most deprived boroughs, as well as activities, workshops and [...]
Tomb of Cicero’s Daughter?
In light of all the Cleo hype (about which I’ll probably have more to add later), it’s interesting perhaps to direct the readers of rogueclassicism to an interesting section of Lanciani in which he describes an amazing discovery in Rome from 1485 (hat tip to Man of Roma for this) … here’s a useful excerpt [...]
Classicisms?
A review of Iphigenia and Other Daughters in the Columbia City Paper suggests, inter alia: Classicists hate to admit it, but Homer and all who proceeded him in the tradition of ancient Greek theater (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, etc.) were of a mind to entertain just as much to educate and elucidate. … er, no … [...]
Roman Torture?
David Bromwich in the Huffington Post writing about US torture etc. mentions, inter alia: Romans of the imperial age practiced torture against enemy combatants on an imposing scale of unrestraint. The gloves were really off. Any viewer of the final montage of Kubrick’s film of Spartacus will remember the captives of the slave rebellion nailed [...]
Roman Burials from Bethlehem
Haven’t seen any more coverage of this other than from the Ma’an News Agency: Roman-era catacombs were unearthed in Bethlehem Saturday during construction in an empty lot beside Bethlehem University. The small underground cave system opens facing north, and held four stone coffins with engravings on each, housed in two separate dug out burial areas. [...]
The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
A ‘busy girl’ sent this one in (gratias tibi ago!): Mythtickle by Justin Thompson
Cross Cultural Match of the Century!
… or so it seemed when I read this headline a bit too quickly: Alexander on undercard as Latimore faces Spinks … could the wily translator match up to the inquisitive Egyptian beastie? The followup tells the tale: Spinks edges Latimore for IBF belt! … and in case you were wondering, Alexander enneagrammatically KOed Jesus [...]
Cleveland Museum of Art Returns
Getting a smattering of coverage this past week was the announcement that the Cleveland Museum of Art would be returning 14 items (13 from the period within our purview) to Italy which were considered to be of dubious origin. In return, the CMoA will be receiving a loan of items of similar value. There don’t [...]
Romans in China Redux
Folks who follow me on Twitter (for whatever reason) know that I spent much of yesterday returning to using Thunderbird as my email program of choice, during the course of which I came across assorted things which I had put aside to check out later, etc.. Among those items was the oft-repeated story about people [...]
