January 28, 2010
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An excerpt from Mary Beard’s latest: Now it is the turn of King’s College London – which is planning (very confidentially, so far) to lose up to 22 posts in Arts and Humanities by the end of the academic year. This means that at least one subject (which ought to be a protected species) will…
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From the BBC (January 27): Dr Margaret Rule clearly remembers receiving a phone call from diver Richard Keen on Christmas Day 1982 saying he had found a ship wreck. The ship was located in the mouth of St Peter Port and was suspected to be a medieval barge. Closer inspection in summer 1983 revealed it…
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From Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S treasure house of art has opened a gleaming new window on what life was like for ordinary people thousands of years ago. Experts at the Fitzwilliam Museum have spent the past 18 months revamping its famous collection of ancient Greek and Roman artefacts – and from Saturday, visitors will be able…
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Not sure how I’ve missed this blog in my scans … the ‘Wayward Classicist’ has been around a while but this is the first post that made it to one of my screens: Tales of a Wayward Classicist: Latin Tattoos. … added to the blogroll thingy on the side
rogue classicism 