February 20, 2010

  • Mice Casts from Pompeii!?

    Tim Parkin posted (on Facebook) this potentially very interesting snippet of a documentary featuring casts of mice who were caught at Pompeii: … but I’m trying to figure out how genuine this is … if you follow the link at the end, it takes you to an artist’s site which has these same mice in…

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  • Today’s Bust in Italy

    Operazione ‘Kore’, as it’s been dubbed, has recovered a number of votive figures of the goddess (among other things) in Caltanissetta.  Here’s the beginning of a list of same from Corriere di Gela: La Squadra Mobile della Questura di Caltanissetta, nell’ambito di mirate indagini su un vasto traffico di reperti archeologici, iniziate su input del…

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): SACE Ancient Worlds Summer School 2010: 26th July – 6th August Summer Schools Programme The School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) is pleased to announce its Summer School Programme for 2010. This year, summer school courses…

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  • Seen on Classicists … this looks fun (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): *At Home with Ovid: A Study Tour* The most scandalous of Roman poets, Ovid was born in Sulmo, modern Sulmona, in 43 BC and died in exile on the Black Sea in 17…

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): www.theatroedu.gr «Ancient Greek Drama: contemporary approaches & education» International Conference Athens, 26-30 March 2010 Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network, in collaboration with the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (Arc-Net), Michael…

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