Also seen: Centauromachy?
The first paragraph of an item in The Sporting News. I have absolutely no idea what he’s talking about … Although being bored during this rather-brief off-season provides for a second Centauromachy, I believe that Greek Mythology will pardon my rather unique ability at beginning a metaphorical urinating contest with pseudo-journalists when they are writing [...]
Recent Reviews at CJ Online
MAGUIRE, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood NETZ, Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic RICHARDSON, The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD MURGATROYD, Apuleius Metamorphoses: An Intermediate Latin Reader via Classical Journal Online Book Review Archives.
Akropolis World News
… in Classical Greek: China summons American ambassador / Military take-over in Niger / UN fears Iran may produce nuclear bomb / Looking for Caravaggio’s corpse.
CONF: Classicism and Romanticism
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Classicism and Romanticism: visit of Jonathan Sachs as IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, 1st-5th March 2010 Organised by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition and the Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol. Jon [...]
CONF: Workshop on ‘Water and identity in the Ancient World’
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop Department of Classics & Ancient History, Ritson Room, 22-23 March 2010. Programme: 22 March, 9.30am to 10am: Welcome and coffee. 10 am to 1 pm: Paola Ceccarelli (Durham), [...]
Citanda: Ancient Olympians Talk
None of this gold, silver, bronze stuff for the ancients … Ancient Olympians won or lost: no silver, bronze | SummitDaily.com.
Citanda: Replica of Orpheus Mosaic Coming to Auction
Just what you need in your dining room: Replica mosaic is to be auctioned | BBC. For sale: brothers’ Roman mosaic that wasn’t built in a day | Times
Citanda: Theatre makes a splash with ‘Eurydice’ photos
Very interesting publicity project for an upcoming performance … includes a little video: Theatre makes a splash with ‘Eurydice’ photos | William and Mary.
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas martias
ante diem v kalendas martias 50 A.D. — The emperor Claudius adopts the future emperor Nero 116 A.D.– supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day 1) 138 A.D. — The emperor Hadrian adopts the future emperor Antoninus Pius
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas martias
ante diem vi kalendas martias Regifugium — a festival which didn’t really happen on “February 24″ but actually six days before the kalends of March, which was usually during a period of intercalation. Roman writers suggested this festival was a celebration of the expulsion of the Tarquins, although modern scholars have their doubts. Whatever the [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas martias
ante diem vii kalendas martias Traditional end of the Roman year (followed by a period of intercalation) Terminalia — a festival in honour of Terminus, the divinity who presided over boundaries. In Rome itself, Terminus had a shrine within the Temple of Jupiter beneath an opening in the roof because, it is said, when they [...]
So Classical … and yet So Not
My spiders regularly pick up items which show how much the Classical languages have influenced our own, but rarely is an incipit of a piece so ‘classical’: THE Mater Dei College (MDC) in Tubigon, Bohol conducted a gubernatorial candidates’ symposium on voters’ education. … I usually just send these to trash, but it later mentions: [...]
Snow in Rome Redux
Last week we posted some photos of the snow activity in Rome. As it turns out, Dr. Max Nelson (UWindsor) was in Rome at the time and took some spectacular shots of the Pantheon in the snowfall and even better, he sent them along to share with y’all (I love the snow falling though the [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii kalendas martias
ante diem viii kalendas martias Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members [...]
d.m. Donald Carne-Ross
Seen on the Classics list: Translation is an art form worthy of academic criticism, Donald S. Carne-Ross argued in literary essays, but as a reader he preferred a writer’s own words, even if they were written in ancient Greek. “To get really close to a poem is possible only if one is reading it in [...]
Also Seen: A Less-Than-Disarming Story
Here’s a weird one: When the owner of a stone sculpture shop Tien Hieu in the stone sculpture village of Non Nuoc in the Central province of Da Nang reported a hand was missing from his stone statue of a young lady, police found that a fan of the Ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo [...]
Citanda – Zeus: King of the Gods
Another comic of interest … here’s a review from Newsarama The commonality between the Greek heroes and gods of myth and the twentieth century comic book superheroes has been noticed, expressed and remarked upon so many times that it has long since become a cliché. It therefore shouldn’t come as much of a surprise how [...]
Also seen: Conventiculum Dickinsonienseis
The Conventiculum Dickinsonienseis a new total immersion seminar in active Latin. It is specifically designed for all cultivators of Latin who wish to gain some ability to express themselves ex-tempore in correct Latin. A wide range of people can benefit from the seminar: professors in universities, teachers in secondary schools, graduate students, undergraduates and other [...]
Zeffirrelli Herm Coming to Auction
Can’t find anything to quote at Bonham’s yet on this, but it’s interesting: A lovely Roman marble bust that film director, Franco Zeffirrelli gave as a wedding gift to friends who worked with him on the filming of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ will be sold at Bonhams next Antiquities Sale in London on April [...]
Knidos an Illegal Excavation Target
The ancient city of Knidos, located near the resort town of Datça on the Aegean, has become the target of illegal excavations and treasure hunters. The gendarmerie station in the 2,600-year-old city is closed in the winter months, and security is provided by two watchmen. The police and gendarmerie forces caught treasure hunters near the [...]
Citanda: Carthage: The Lost Mediterranean Civilisation
Lengthy article by Richard Miles in History Today: Carthage: The Lost Mediterranean Civilisation | History Today.
CFP: 10th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): 10th ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2010: ‘REVELRY, RHYTHM AND BLUES’ CALL FOR PAPERS We are happy to announce the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ED: SACE Ancient Worlds Summer School 2010
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 [...]
