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Blogging Pompeii: More news from Il Mattino: more of Pompeii to open to visitors.

From the Classical blogosphere: Blogging Pompeii: News article: “Villa dei Papiri: nelle nuove stanze…”.

Charlotte Higgins: The Iliad and what it can still tell us about war | The Guardian.

The Seattle p-i has a reviewish sort of thing of an exhibition at Princeton of images various authors, including this one of Milton: William Marshall’s 1645 Engraving Of John Milton. This portrait, produced for John Milton’s first published book of verse, includes the writer’s opinion of his likeness in the caption. Written in ancient Greek–which [...]

Scott McGill Plagiarism or Imitation?: The Case of Abronius Silo in Seneca the Elder’s Suasoriae 2.19–20 Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 113-131 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: Disagreements over whether an author imitated or plagiarized a predecessor are a part of Latin literary history, with Virgil’s ancient reception providing striking [...]

Shane Butler The Scent of a Woman Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 87-112 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: At Aeneid 1.691-94, Venus sets Ascanius down to sleep on a bed of aromatic marjoram; Servius seizes the opportunity to recount the origins of perfume. Revealing that the note is no antiquarian [...]

Claudia Zatta Making History Mythical: The Golden Age of Peisistratus Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 21-62 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: This paper examines the association in Aristotle (Ath. Pol. 16.7) of the mythical Golden Age with the tyranny of Peisistratus and, by means of an array of both iconographic [...]

Eric Dodson-Robinson Helen’s “Judgment of Paris” and Greek Marriage Ritual in Sappho 16 Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 1-20 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: The evaluation and judgment of what is most beautiful (κάλλιστον) in Sappho 16 is what John Foley calls a “traditional reference” to the judgment of Paris. [...]

Dean Hammer Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 63-86 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated [...]

Hadrian, the man who built the wall | Morpeth Herald.

Brief item on the amphitheatre at Caserta and its links to Spartacus: Anfiteatro secondo solo al Colosseo – Corriere del Mezzogiorno.

Interesting item from Il Mattino … essentially detailing the revelation (if that’s the right word; this doesn’t seem to be a ‘discovery’, but rather a recognition that there was archaeotouristy value in a site which apparently was a theatre built by Nero (in Naples): Vicolo Cinque Santi, cuore del centro storico: bassi, immondizia, degrado. E [...]

Sue Day sent this one in … Mary Beard is going to be on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Disks tomorrow (Sunday) and repeated the following Friday … click the link for more details. BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Desert Island Discs, Mary Beard.

A TACTIC borrowed from an episode in Ancient Greek mythology helped police take on and win a battle against a plague of modern Britain. Taking inspiration from the Trojan Horse that helped the Greeks enter Troy after a decade of deadlock, officers in the Welsh capital came up with a disguise that allowed them to [...]

Of interest: Hadrian, the man who built the wall | Morpeth Herald.

Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): D-Caucus Seminars Lent Term 2010 Tuesdays at 4.30pm Room 1.04 Faculty of Classics (Sidgwick Site), Cambridge. All Welcome. Two worlds colliding?: the relationships between Classics and Museums organised by Dr Kate Cooper, Fitzwilliam Museum. 26th January Professor [...]