Bipolar Alexander?
The incipit of a piece in the Telegraph: Clever children are almost four times more likely to suffer from the condition, which is also known as manic depression. The latest finding, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, supports a commonly held belief that exceptional intellectual ability is associated with the mental illness. Famous sufferers [...]
Roman Theatre at Baia
Came across this one las week but couldn’t get it to post for some reason … it details the discovery via satellite imagery, off the shore of Baia, of what seems to be a Roman theatre: Era il lontano 1956, quando Raimondo Bucher – ufficiale pilota da caccia – scoprì durante una ricognizione aerea, giacere [...]
Podcast:Cleopatra’s Alexandria Treasures
Renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [below] about his efforts to recover artifacts from the ancient cities of Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, with special attention to discoveries related to Cleopatra and her reign. The exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia [...]
Anne Carson Performs
From the Emory Wheel: Renowned classicist and contemporary poet Anne Carson read her work at Emory last Wednesday as the 2010 Nix Mann lecturer. The Nix Mann lecture series features a distinguished lecturer on campus each year. Carson, who performed her poems “Cassandra Float Can” and “Bracko” in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, has received [...]
CONF: British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting 2010
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting, 2010 Saturday 24 April, 2010 Trinity College Dublin (In)formal epigraphy The spring meeting will examine formality and informality within epigraphic culture. What different types of formality and informality can we detect in [...]
CFP: Coloquio Internacional Veinte Siglos de Ciencia Griega
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): CFP INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM “Twenty Centuries of Greek Science (4th cent. BC – 16th cent. AC)”, Madrid, 19-21 May 2010 The Institute of Classical Studies “Lucius Annaeus Seneca” (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and the Departament of Logic, History [...]
This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas februarias
pridie nonas februarias 211 — death of Septimius Severus at York; his son Caracalla assumed the title of pontifex maximus at this time
