Bronze Head of Augustus Found in Aosta
Haven’t seen coverage of this in the English press (or a photo, alas) … bronze head, probably Augustus, some 15cm high:
Il patrimonio archeologico valdostano si arricchisce di una testa bronzea risalente all’epoca romana. Il reperto è stato trovato nel centro storico di Aosta, durante alcune indagini (scavi) in piazza Roncas.
Si tratta di un’applique in bronzo raffigurante una testa virile di imperatore, probabilmente Augusto, alta circa 15 centimetri, e costituisce un reperto di grande importanza per le ricerche archeologiche in quanto si tratta della prima raffigurazione di un imperatore trovata in Valle d’Aosta.
Per l’assessore regionale alla Cultura, Laurent Vierin, “questo ritrovamento è testimone dell’importanza che rivestono gli scavi archeologici quale primo passo per una corretta ‘restitution’del patrimonio culturale”. Aggiunge: “La tutela e la valorizzazione riescono a dialogare e a riconsegnare alla comunità parti fondamentali del proprio Dna storico quali sono i beni culturali. Questo pregevole rinvenimento conferma l’importanza del patrimonio nella conoscenza delle nostre radici storiche”.
Una volta eseguite le necessarie operazioni di pulitura e restauro la testa bronzea potrà essere ammirata nei musei valdostani.
- RITROVATA IN CENTRO AOSTA TESTA BRONZEA DELL’EPOCA ROMANA (ANSA Valle d’Aosta)
Crime Beat: Bust in Olbia
La Guardia di Finanza di Olbia ha trovato in casa di un 50enne del posto undici reperti di ”interesse archeologico” di probabile epoca Romana.
L’uomo ha recuperato il materiale durante una battuta di pesca subacquea, ed è stato denunciato alla Procura della Repubblica di Tempio Pausania.
Nell’ambito dell’operazione denominata dai finanzieri ”Cocci di Natale”, sono state sequestrate due anfore di epoca presumibilmente romana, un coccio di un anfora e 8 articoli di vasellame vario (piatti, coppette, vasetti) in condizioni ottimali. Il materiale è ora a disposizione dell’autorità giudiziaria di Tempio Pausania.
- Nascondeva in casa reperti archeologici di epoca romana (NotiziarioItaliano)
Citanda: The “New Cleopatra” and the Jewish Tax – Biblical Archaeology Review
Warning: This article contains much that is uncertain and even speculative. You must therefore be over 18 to continue reading. On the other hand, the uncertainties and speculations are clearly marked as such. Moreover, the background of the story is unquestionably true.
This is the true part.
Each Jewish male 20 years or older was Biblically required to contribute a half shekel each year to the Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting) (see Exodus 30:11–16). In Temple times this half-shekel tax was used for upkeep of the Temple. After the Roman legions destroyed the Temple in 70 C.E., the emperor Vespasian imposed the so-called Fiscus Judaicus as a kind of replacement tax, to be used for the upkeep of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome. Unlike the half-shekel tax, which was imposed only on adult males, the two-denarius Fiscus Judaicus was imposed on every Jew—male and female, young and old, in the Land of Israel and elsewhere.
More: The “New Cleopatra” and the Jewish Tax ~ Biblical Archaeology Review.
Citanda: Under the Influence – Biblical Archaeology Review
How and why and to what extent Greek culture was absorbed into the ancient Jewish world is not always clear, but that it was is undeniable.
To some extent, the answers depend on whether we study Judaism primarily as a separate culture, developed from its Biblical roots in an unbroken line, or whether we study it primarily as part of the wider cultural and religious history of the Mediterranean and the Near Eastern world. Scholars will naturally respond that both approaches are important. Nevertheless decisions taken at the start of any investigation about which aspect deserves more attention will inevitably color our conclusions. How can the right balance be achieved?
Citanda: EA Latin Students Earn Awards
East Aurora High School hosted the Classical Association of Western New York 2009 Invitational Certamen competition on Sat., Dec. 5. The contest consisted of almost 200 students from more than 10 schools or districts, including East Aurora, Pittsford, Niagara Wheatfield, Bishop Timon/St. Jude, Clarence, Amherst, Williamsville and Orchard Park. East Aurora had 12 students who attained a first-, second-, or third-place award in various categories.
… from the East Aurora Advertiser.
Citanda: Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)
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Teaching Classical Languages (TCL)
Publisher: Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
Note: Successor to CPL Online
Teaching Classical Languages is the only peer-reviewed electronic
journal dedicated to the teaching and learning of Latin and ancient
Greek. It addresses the interests of all Latin and Greek teachers,
graduate students, coordinators, and administrators.Teaching Classical Languages welcomes articles offering innovative
practice and methods, advocating new theoretical approaches, or
reporting on empirical research in teaching and learning Latin and
Greek. As an electronic journal, Teaching Classical Languages has a
unique global outreach. It offers authors and readers a multimedia
format that more fully illustrates the topics discussed, and provides
hypermedia links to related information and websites.Articles not only contribute to successful Latin and Greek pedagogy, but
draw on relevant literature in language education, applied linguistics,
and second language acquisition for an ongoing dialogue with modern
language educators.Editor:
John Gruber-Miller
Classical and Modern Languages
Cornell College
600 First St SW
Mount Vernon, IA 52314Email: jgruber-miller AT cornellcollege.edu
Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
Current Issue: Volume I, Issue 1 Fall 2009
Citanda: Transactions of the American Philological Association – Volume 139, Number 2, Autumn 2009
Article previews … restricted access otherwise:
Illustrations for “Hephaestus on Foot in the Ceramicus” (Stephen Fineberg)
Presidential Adress 2009
Conceptualizing and Theorizing Peace in Ancient Greece
Kurt A. Raaflaub
A Wolf at the Table: Sympotic Perjury in Archilochus
Renaud Gagné
Hephaestus on Foot in the Ceramicus
Stephen Fineberg
Proving Power: Signs and Sign-inference in Thucydides’ Archaeology
Joshua J. Reynolds
Magnesian Inviolability
Joshua D. Sosin
Womanly Humanism in Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations
William H. F. Altman
Death ante ora parentum in Virgil’s Aeneid
Timothy M. O’Sullivan
Citanda: CSAD Newsletter No. 12 Published
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The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) at the University of
Oxford has published its Winter 2009/2010 newsletter (issue no. 12). The
newsletter contains articles on the following topics: the Monumenta Asiae
Minoris Antiqua (MAMA) XI project; a Decision Support System (DSS) for
interpreting ancient documents being developed by an Oxford DPhil student;
and the new interpretation of the ‘Frisian Ox’ tablet. There is also news
on visiting academics, a new staff member, conferences and events.The newsletter can be downloaded in PDF format from the CSAD web site:
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/CSAD/Newsletters/Newsletters.html(Scroll to the bottom for the latest issue)
CFP: “Exploring Equity in Antiquity”
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In honour of the formation of an Equity Committee as part of the
Classical Association of Canada, the theme for this year’s panel
sponsored by the The Women’s Network/Réseau des Femmes is "Exploring
Equity in Antiquity." We invite submissions that explore questions
regarding the existence and nature of gender equality in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Did equity in the modern sense of the concept exist
in antiquity or is the notion of ‘separate but equal’ a more productive
way of thinking about the question? To what degree was there equity in
private or public spheres in areas such as religion, domestic and family
life, euergetism, commerce and trade, creative endeavours (e.g., music,
poetry and art) and other spheres of activity? How was gender equity
affected by other means of differentiation such as juridical status,
socio-economic status, age, or ethnicity? To what extent did these
either facilitate or compromise attempts to achieve equity?
Contributions might also examine the representation of men and women in
literature, mythology and art, as well as efforts by classicists in the
19th and 20th centuries to achieve equity in the area of scholarship
(for example, the struggle of female classicists to gain professional
recognition).
This call for papers is meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive. We
welcome papers that consider the theme from a variety of perspectives
and sources of evidence (textual, visual, and material).
Please submit abstracts online:http://www.evenements.fl.ulaval.ca/index.php/SCEC-CAC/2010/schedConf/cfp
Abstracts should be around 300 words in length. The deadline is January
15, 2010. Please note your intention to participate in this panel when
you submit. For general inquires please contact Judith Fletcher,
jfletcher AT wlu.ca
CONF: Royal Holloway Research Seminars
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RHUL Classics Research Seminar 2009-2010
Perspectives on the Ancient HouseAll seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 6.pm in the Management Building 003
January 12th Nick Lowe (RHUL)
Comic HousesJanuary 26th Katie Billotte (RHUL)
Roman Hacienda or Mexican Domus?: The Roman House in Colonial Mexico.February 9th Ray Laurence (University of Birmingham)
Subject TBCMarch 2nd Ruth Webb (Birkbeck, University of London)
‘Adultery, mime and metafiction in Apuleius and Achilles Tatius’March 9th Claudia Stephan (RHUL)
TBC on new finds at the Domus AureaMarch 16th Jonathan Powell (RHUL)
‘The house full of cakes and the handout on the front doorstep: Some
Juvenalian problems.’March 23rd Anne Sheppard (RHUL)
‘Houses in the mind: the image of the house in some rhetorical and philosophical texts’.
Podcast – BBC Great Lives, Series 20, Nero
Christopher Biggins champions the life of the Roman Emperor Nero, a man whose modest talent for poetry was overshadowed by his debauchery, extravagance and tyranny.
Available as a “listen again” thing for only a week …
Citanda: Bar Kokhba Revolt Coins
Brief item of interest in Archaeology.
Citanda: American Journal of Archaeology 114.1
Articles:
Marks of State Ownership and the Greek Agora at Corinth
Jamieson C. Donati
Civilization Under Construction: Depictions of Architecture on the Column of Trajan
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill
Who was Diva Domitilla? Some Thoughts on the Public Images of the Flavian Women
Susan Wood
Dialogues of Ancient Graffiti in the House of Maius Castricius in Pompeii
Rebecca R. Benefiel
Review: The Making of Roman India
PARKER, The Making of Roman India
+Review by Paul Properzio: CJ Online 2010.01.01
Abstract: First Minoan Shipwreck
… from Archaeology Magazine
Citanda: Following in Alexander’s Afghan footsteps
Following in Alexander’s Afghan footsteps.
… from the Times-Colonist
CONF: Conference on Pindar and Greek Sports–travel grants for students
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CONFERENCE ON PINDAR AND SPORT IN HONOR OF DAVID C. YOUNG
Center for Greek Studies, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL. March 19-21,2010
Conference Organizers: Kostas Kapparis and Robert Wagman
The Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida is
organizing a Conference on Pindar and Sport in Honor of David C.
Young. Registration for the Conference is free. If you are planning to
participate, please let us know in advance by sending an e-mail to the
Senior Secretary of the Center for Greek Studies Tina Williams
(tiwilliams AT ufl.edu), so that we can extend a proper welcome and
include you in the festivities.In addition, the UF library and the G.I. Dolianitis Center will be
organizing an exhibit of rare books and documents on Pindar and the
History of Sport to coincide with the conference.The Center for Greek Studies also offers three bursaries of $ 500 to
facilitate travel and participation in the conference for Ph.D.
students working on Pindar and/or the History of Sport in Ancient or
Modern Greece.Applicants should send an e-mail indicating their interest and
explaining how participation in this conference would enhance their
current research project, with a CV emphasizing academic
accomplishments, to the Co-Director of the Center for Greek Studies,
Professor Robert Wagman (rsw AT ufl.edu). Deadline: January 20.The conference program, regular updates and further information about
this event can be found in the Conference Website:http://www.classics.ufl.edu/Young_Conference.html
Download the Conference Flyer here:
