Very interesting item from the Hexham Courant: A HEXHAM archaeologist has challenged perceived wisdom with startling claims that Hadrian’s Wall was originally built of wood. In a 65,000 word thesis published on his website, Geoff Carter says his hypothesis answers some age-old questions. Archaeologists have long wondered why the ditch that runs parallel is several [...]
Archive for August 20, 2009
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CFP: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values (VI): Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
Posted: August 20, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on the Classicists list: PENN-LEIDEN COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT VALUES (VI) We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the sixth Penn-Leiden Colloquium: AESTHETIC VALUE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA June 25-27, 2010 Greek and Roman cultures were alive with the arts and deeply interested in questions of aesthetic [...]
CONF: Don Fowler’s Unrolling the Text ten years on
Posted: August 20, 2009 by rogueclassicist in ConferencesSeen on various lists: Text/Performance: Provisional Programme A workshop organised by the editors of Don Fowler’s unpublished Unrolling the Text to assess the place of this work in the field of Classics ten years since the author’s death. The workshop will be held on 22nd and 23rd September 2009 in the Ioannou Centre for Classical [...]
This one’s been making the rounds of various lists these past days … it’s a German television program entirely in Latin (except for the German subtitles); it isn’t that difficult to understand, especially with the accompanying visuals …
Wading through assorted items my spiders dragged back to me, I note the following excerpt at Official Spin … I’ve emphasized what caught my eye: Beta-galactosidase is widely used as a reporter gene in the life sciences, and detection is typically performed with a colorimetric substrate. Recently, a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent beta-galactosidase activity assay for [...]
ED: Reception of Thucydides: Research Assistant and Studentships
Posted: August 20, 2009 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedSeen on the Classicists list: Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence This four-year, AHRC-funded research project at the University of Bristol, led by Professor Neville Morley, will explore the history of the reception of Thucydides and his work since the Renaissance, including the history of scholarship and criticism on the text, the changing interpretative frameworks and [...]
This one is making the rounds of the ‘eastern’ papers … here’s the ANI version via Daily India: A team of archaeologists has discovered the ancient port city of Bathonea, located in Istanbul’s Kucukcekmece basin in Turkey, which is estimated to be 1,600 years old. According to a report in Today’s Zaman, Dr. Sengul Aydingun [...]
Interesting item from Ha’aretz … some excerpts: Remains of an ancient cult to the goddess of love have come to light in the southern Golan Heights site of Susita At the site, on a 350 meter-high-plateau overlooking the eastern shore of Lake Kinneret, archaeologists found a cache of three figurines of Aphrodite (whom the Romans [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas septembres
Posted: August 20, 2009 by rogueclassicist in TDIAH, Uncategorizedante diem xiii kalendas septembres 2 A.D. — death of Augustus’ grandson/adoptive son Lucius Caesar in Massalia
