Apoxyomenos Appropriations
This one’s just starting to hit the papers; apparently other fields learned from an Apoxyomenos discovery back in 1998 as well … here’s Eurekalert’s take: The restoration of a 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture of the famed ancient Greek athlete Apoxyomenos may help modern scientists understand how to prevent metal corrosion, discover the safest ways to permanently [...]
From the Italian Press
… the last bit of the backlog! woohoo! A piece of a Roman column was found in a drain during sewer work in Naples (I think): ARCHEOLOGIA: TROVATA COLONNA ROMANA IN UN CANTIERE (Espresso) Excavations in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence have revealed remains of a first century theatre: Novità negli scavi sotto Palazzo Vecchio [...]
Breviaria Miscellaneaque
I’m hoping to get the last of the backlog out of my system over the course of the day … here’s a pile of items which, for various reasons, I didn’t really get a chance to get to (again, some might be a bit old): How’s your Classical education?: Do you need a better classical [...]
Multi-Spectral Imaging
Seems we get a report like this every year around this time … the incipit of a piece from PhysOrg: It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some [...]
CONF: Scientists and Professionals
… seen on the Classicists list: SCIENTISTS AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD CONFERENCE School of Classics, University of St Andrews 7-9 September 2009 Booking is now open for the ‘Scientists and Professionals in the Ancient World’ conference. Please visit the conference website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/scipro.shtml A booking form (bottom of the page) may be completed on-line, [...]
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem viii idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 3) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a divinity who supposedly presided over victory [...]
