Archive for May 1, 2009

CONF: Rome in Bloomsbury

Posted: May 1, 2009 by rogueclassicist in Conferences

The Rome in Bloomsbury seminars return with a short spring series: Recent Work on the Roman Military. May 19th, 1pm (room B23, Birkbeck College, Malet Street) Death in the Dark: Grim Secrets of the Sasanian siege of Roman Dura-Europos, Syria, c. AD 256 Dr Simon James School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester [...]

CONF: Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Events

Posted: May 1, 2009 by rogueclassicist in Conferences

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cam/> We are very lucky to host four events in the next fortnight, all of which promise to be excellent. Please note the changes from our usual time and venue. This Monday, April 27th at 5pm, Werner Eck will speak on ‘Rewriting History from Inscriptions: New Perspectives on Hadrian and [...]

This Day in Ancient History

Posted: May 1, 2009 by rogueclassicist in TDIAH

kalendae maiae 1700 — death of John Dryden (poet and translator of many of the versions of ancient poetry which abound on the internet)