Citanda: National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week
Next week is National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week … here’s the official home page: NLTRW: Home Page.
Colchester Roman Circus Saved?
The campaigners have reached their goal … does this mean that the Circus is saved or are there other hurdles? Campaigners in Colchester hit their target yesterday of raising £200,000 towards saving the only Roman chariot-racing circus ever found in Britain. Nothing remains above ground except a few stones, but the campaigners aim to buy [...]
Another Bust in Thessaloniki
The Thessaloniki Police Antiquities Smuggling department on Sunday announced that it had successfully busted a ring of illegal antiquities traders, who were negotiating with antiquities-trading circuits for the sale of important archaeological finds for very large sums of money. Police said that an investigation lasting several months had culminated last Friday with the arrest of [...]
Citanda: Aeschylus “The Oresteia”
The series continues: Aeschylus “The Oresteia” | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Sword and Sandal Flicks
The Independent has a feature on sword and sandal flicks with a handy list at the end of just-released and to-be-released films of the genre. Here are a few to keep your eyes open for: The Eagle of the Ninth In Britain, this time in AD140, but with the Ninth Legion again as a young [...]
Why We Need More Classics in Canada
The first sentence of a piece in the Toronto Star by a well-known (in Canada) journalist: In Greek mythology, Diana is born by springing from the head of her father Zeus, fully clad in armour, with spear and shield. A goddess of wisdom and heroic endeavours. … I don’t think I need to specify the [...]
Garrolous Nestor?
The incipit of a book reviewish thing (Thomas Sowell … nothing really Classical) which is kind of interesting: Years ago I encountered a wonderful book entitled “The Classics Reclassified.” It was a brilliant piece of satire by Richard Armour, an esteemed English professor, based on several of the classic books used for decades as high [...]
Citanda: Was Seneca Worth an Oscar Award?
Interesting item in News Blaze: The first step in providing a proper analysis of the dramatic view Lucius Anneus Seneca held, in regards to his tragedy works, is to investigate his language and precise use of high and pregnant words. This is definitely the first and probably the most important, sign of a big fracture [...]
Caligulan Censorship? Not quite …
Whenever some library hosts a thing about censorship and the like, invariably something from ancient times comes up … here’s the latest example of same, such as it is: AD 35: Roman Emperor Caligula opposed the reading of The Odyssey by Homer, written more than 300 years before. He thought the epic poem was dangerous [...]
Spartacus the Communist
I knew that Spartacus was highly regarded in Marxist circles, but I didn’t know this sort of thing occurred with the Kirk Douglas film came out (in medias res from an article on a showing of the film): As a leader, Spartacus has been admired by revolutionaries seeking to overcome the power of an over-class. [...]
26th Fox Classics Lecture at Monmouth
Timothy J. Moore, professor of classics at the University of Texas, will deliver Monmouth College’s 26th annual Bernice L. Fox Classics Lecture on March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wells Theater. Titled “Musical Comedy: Roman and American,” the lecture is free and open to the public. Moore will propose that for all their differences, [...]
CONF: Justice in the Greek and Roman World
Seen in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): JUSTICE IN THE ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD The University of Western Ontario, Mar 5th-7th, 2010 This conference seeks to bring together scholars from around North America to present papers on aspects of law [...]
Recent Finds from Knossos
As my one son works on a high school paper about Knossos, it’s interesting that they still find things there: Geophysical studies at Kefala Hill in the Knossos archaeological site on Crete island, have revealed findings of the most ancient farm houses in Greece, and perhaps in all of Europe, dating back between 7,000- 6,400 [...]
Roman Soldier’s Hoard?
Not quite sure of the ‘military’ claim here: A hoard of 208 coins found in a Suffolk field could have belonged to a retired Roman soldier. The collection of silver denarii coins was discovered in an undisclosed area of north Suffolk last spring, an inquest heard. Greater Suffolk Coroner Peter Dean determined the find to [...]
CFP: Religion and Identity in the Ancient World
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Postgraduate workshop on Religion and Identity in the Ancient World, 22nd- 23rd April 2010 Durham University This postgraduate workshop, hosted by Durham University’s Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) on [...]
A Bust in Lebanon Nets a Sarcophagus
No photos, alas … The Lebanese Antiquities Department received on Monday a rare sarcophagus and other antique items confiscated from the house of a sheikh in Baalbek. The judicial police found the antiquities last Wednesday at the house of Sheikh Mohammad Jaafar Suleiman al-Mohajer, who was believed to have dug them out illegally and kept [...]
Citanda: BBC Doing Atlantis a la 300
On the one hand, a companion documentary with Bettany Hughes … on the other hand, something else with a need (apparently) for a companion documentary … one has doubts about the ‘something else’ … via Disaster! BBC to re-create the sinking of Atlantis a la 300 | SCI FI Wire.
Citanda: Cambridge returns Greeks and Romans to limelight | Reuters
Another item on the Fitzwilliam’s recently-renovated Greek and Roman galleries: Cambridge returns Greeks and Romans to limelight | Reuters.
Restoring Jupiter
Interesting item: IT IS almost 2,000 years old and was thought to have been lost forever, but now an ancient Roman bust is being preserved for future generations. Conservationists have begun the painstaking process of restoring a marble carving of the Roman god Jupiter which has been rediscovered at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon. The piece [...]
Citanda: Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience : Discovery News
Some very nice photos: Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience | Discovery News.
Tarquinian Reggia from Gabii?
This one’s working its way through the Italian press … a sixth century (B.C.) edifice which includes an image associated with the Tarquins. Also of interest is evidence of ritual foundation sacrifice and the burial of five (non-sacrificed?) children under the foundations as well. Il Messaggero seems to have the best coverage so far: Gli [...]
Citanda: Hesiod “Theogony” @ The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Nice intro: Hesiod “Theogony” | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Plovdiv Roman Stadium Restoration Project
The ancient Roman Stadium in the heart of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is to be restored in an archaeological project launched on Thursday. Plovdiv Regional Administration has succeeded in obtaining European funding of over EUR 900 000 for the restoration of the site. “The project envisages the construction of an ancient underground museum. Such [...]
Pun o’ the Week
An Aegean stable of debt via An Aegean stable of debt | Gulf Times.
Passing ClassCon Plagiarism?
The Malone University President has stepped down amidst some plagiarism allegations, inter alia: Ms. Thomas said concerns about plagiarism became public after students noticed similarities between a chapel address given by Mr. Streit on January 13 and online work written by others. For example, Mr. Streit began the speech with a description of the Roman [...]
