AFP seems to be the only major news agency that picked this one up … via IAfrica: A shipwreck believed to date back to Roman times was found at the bottom of Montenegro’s Boka Kotorska bay, officials said on Tuesday. “We believe we have found the wreckage of a ship that could have been used [...]
Archive for June 29, 2009
Most of the coverage of this one — both in Italian and English — is pretty much the same. The site is Rione Terra, which overlooks Pozzuoli. Here’s the coverage from AdnKronos: Archaeologists have unearthed a number of ancient Roman treasures during excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples. Twelve ancient statues, columns and [...]
This one is a week or so old, but its interest remains. Assorted news organizations have covered the discovery of a mass burial of possibly 1st-century date during road construction in Dorset. The burial itself is puzzling, however, as the 40-odd skeletons seem to belong to folks who were decapitated, and the skulls were buried [...]
It seems appropriate on this date of the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul to comment on all the news that broke over the weekend in regards to St. Paul (and St Peter as well, indirectly). First, on Saturday, L’Osservatore Romano broke the news of the discovery of the oldest iconic images of St. Paul, [...]
From Wicked Local Newton: Former students remember Bob Mitchell as much for his stories and mystery that surrounded him as for the language they learned from him. “He was one of the most brilliant people I have ever met, and also by far the most enigmatic,” said Arielle Weisman, who graduated from North in 2003 [...]
Seen on Aegeanet quite a while ago: The Swedish Institute at Athens is organizing a conference entitled “Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice”. The event will take place in Athens, on the 10th-12th of September 2009. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the role and [...]
From the Otago Daily Times: Dr Douglas Little, an influential classics teacher who retired from the University of Otago classics department as an associate professor in 1987, has died in Dunedin after a long illness. He was in his mid-70s. Dr Little, who at one stage was the department’s only New Zealand-born staff member, had [...]
CFP: Cross-cultural Influence in the Roman World
Posted: June 29, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin: Call for Papers Cross-cultural Influence in the Roman World, McMaster University 3 October 2009 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Emma Dench, Harvard University Abstracts for papers on cross-cultural influence in the Roman world are sought for the Classics Graduate Conference at McMaster University on Saturday, 3 October 2009. Abstracts should be [...]
At the APA site, natch: POSITIONS FOR CLASSICISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS
In case you missed it, Paris Hilton’s latest ‘scent’ has a potentially Classical bent. Here’s a photo (via People): Sez the heiress: Siren is all about being sexy in a playful way. I feel irresistible as a mermaid,What girl doesn’t want to have fun being a fantasy creature that men can’t resist? What many folks [...]
Here’s the last post at Akropolis World News prior to the usual summer break: Michael Jackson dies / Hamelin flautist arrives again / Politkovskaia killers to be judged again
From the News-Gazette: Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Thomas Scanlan as an enthusiastic and outstanding teacher who brought the world of Latin and classical mythology to life for a generation of University of Illinois students. Mr. Scanlan, 81, of Champaign, died at 1:14 a.m. Sunday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Funeral arrangements were incomplete [...]
ante diem iii kalendas quinctilis 179 B.C. (?) — dedication of a Temple of Hercules and the Muses (and associated rites thereafter) 29 B.C. — restoration of the Temple of Quirinus
