Citanda: Hadrian Talk
Of interest: Hadrian, the man who built the wall | Morpeth Herald.
Asian Burial at Vagnari?
Very interesting item from the Independent: A team of researchers announced a surprising discovery during a scholarly presentation in Toronto last Friday. The research team, based at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, has been helping to excavate an ancient Roman cemetery at the site of Vagnari in southern Italy. Led by Professor Tracy Prowse, they’ve [...]
CONF: Cambridge Classical Archaeology Seminar Series
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 [...]
CFP: Prometheus Trust Conference
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): CONFERENCE 2010 Friday, 25 June to Sunday, 27 June Ivy House, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK Crisis and Judgment: Contemplating Action The word crisis comes to us from the Greek – it meant the act of judging, distinguishing and [...]
CONF: Manchester, Classics & Ancient History Research Seminars
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): *NB a couple of changes and a couple of additions to the programme published in September* UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND MANCHESTER BRANCH CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 2009-10, Semester 2 All Thursday [...]
Citanda: Medical Case Histories on Mount Olympus.
Tip o’ the pileus to Randolph Bragg for this bit o’ fun: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Medical Case Histories on Mount Olympus..
More on the Aqua Traiana
A nice video from the BBC (tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch) more about “BBC News – Secret source of a Roman a…“, posted with vodpod Our earlier coverage here …
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv kalendas februarias
ante diem iv kalendas februarias 164 B.C. — death of Antiochus Epiphanes (according to one reckoning) 1 B.C. — departure of Gaius Caesar to the east (?) 275 A.D. — death of Aurelian (according to one reckoning, which doesn’t seem right)
Cuts at King’s College London?
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 [...]
Guernsey’s Roman Shipwreck
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 [...]
The Fitzwilliam Has Some Interesting Stuff
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 [...]
Citanda Tales of a Wayward Classicist: Latin Tattoos
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
CONF: St Andrews Seminars
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): All seminars take place on Fridays at 4.00 p.m. (note the new time!) in Swallowgate 11. Papers are followed by discussion. All are very welcome. Feb 12th Richard Steadman-Jones (Sheffield) ‘Language of Art’: The Place of Greek [...]
Codex Gregorianus Found?
For someone whose MA and never-completed PhD was dependent on this sort of thing, this is pretty big news from Science Daily: Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered by researchers at University College London’s Department of History. Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway made the [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas februarias
ante diem vi kalendas februarias 6 A.D. — dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux by the future emperor Tiberius 98 A.D. — death of Nerva (?) ca. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Devota 1887 — birth of Carl Blegen, future excavator of Pylos (etc.)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas februarias
ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which [...]
CFP: Sarkophage
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): 1. International Symposium Call for papers From Oct. 2 – 8, 2010 (with papers to be read Oct. 3 – 7) we are planning to hold the first symposium of the International Association "Roman Sarcophagi", to be [...]
CFP: What Became of Lily Ross Taylor?
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): *CALL FOR PAPERS What Became of Lily Ross Taylor? Women and Ancient History in North America* organized by Celia E. Schultz and Michele R. Salzman The APA’s Committee for Ancient History and the Women’s Classical Caucus together [...]
Source of the Aqua Traiana Found?
A very interesting find by some clumsy amateurs, apparently (when will the media stop having folks ‘stumble’ on things???) … this seems to be hype for a documentary, but that’s not a bad thing. Here’s the incipit of the Telegraph coverage: The underground spring lies behind a concealed door beneath an abandoned 13th century church [...]
CONF: APA 2011 Panel on Greek Prosody
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): A New Look at Greek Prosody Organized by David Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley) and Dieter Gunkel (University of California, Los Angeles) With the 1994 publication of The Prosody of Greek Speech, Devine and Stephens achieved insights [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii kalendas februarias
ante diem viii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day 2) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which [...]
New issue of Pomerium!
Seen on Ostia-l (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): salve , ti informiamo che è on-line il nuovo numero di Pomerivm, il notiziario trimestrale dell’Associazione culturale Pomerium. Lo trovi all’indirizzo Internet http://www.pomerium.org/download.asp?file=POMERIVM_Gennaio2010.zip In questo numero: – Roma, “la pittura di un impero” alle scuderie del Quirinale [...]
Medusa from Caesarea
A unique archaeological exhibition has opened in Caesarea harbor: for the first time the general public can see an extraordinary 1,700 year old sarcophagus cover that is one of the most impressive ever discovered in Caesarea. The cover, which weighs more than 4 tons, is decorated with snake-haired medusa heads and joyful and sad-faced masks. [...]
Citanda: Top ten passions of Ancient Rome (slide show)
… sounds suspiciously like undergrad life … Top ten passions of Ancient Rome | The Independent.
A Roman Burial From Weston
From the BBC … I don’t think we mentioned its original discovery: A Roman skeleton, which was found in Weston-super-Mare last autumn, has been dated by archaeological experts. The find at Weston College is described as an adult male of slender build, aged between 36 and 45 and of “smaller stature than the Roman average”. [...]
