d.m. Colin Wells (obituary)
This is Susan Treggiari’s obituary of Dr. Wells as it appeared in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (used with permission): Colin Wells died on 11 March, at Bangor in North Wales, with his family around him, after a short illness. He was born on 15 November 1933. After Nottingham High School, where he was very well [...]
23,000 Years B.P. Stone Wall from Thessaly
A bit out of the period of our purview, but of interest for those first classes of Classical Civ: The oldest stone wall in Greece, which has stood at the entrance of a cave in Thessaly for the last 23,000 years, has been discovered by palaeontologists, the ministry of culture said Monday.The age of the [...]
d.m. Gavin Townend
From the Northern Echo: FORMER colleagues will join family and friends at Durham Cathedral for the funeral of a respected classics academic next week.Professor Gavin Townend died following a recent illness at Hallgarth Nursing Home, in Durham City, on Saturday, aged 90. A widower, he survived his wife, Elspeth, by ten years.Their daughter, Julia, who [...]
Citanda: Sex in the Service of Aphrodite: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?
Sort of a state-of-the-debate piece: Sex in the Service of Aphrodite: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity? | Spiegel.
Macedonian Coin Hoard
From Balkan Travellers: Around 20 coins with the image of the father of Alexander the Great, Philip II of Macedon, and “other ancient Macedonian rulers” were found by archaeologists during excavations along the road between the south-western Macedonian towns of Ohrid and Struga, national media reported today.In addition to the coins, a space with around [...]
CONF: Laughter in the Library
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Laughter in the Library: a colloquium on Old Comedy for Penny Bulloch Ioannou Classics Centre, Oxford Saturday 5th June 2010 10.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. To mark the retirement of Penny Bulloch and her contribution as Fellow [...]
Trinity College’s Classics Threatened
From the Tripod: Trinity College’s Classics Department is in danger of being dissolved and replaced as an interdisciplinary program. This process involves numerous steps, the first of which is the notification of Department Chair and Associate Professor of Classics Dr. Martha Risser by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC). The EPC consists of various members of [...]
Gladiating Through University
Image via Wikipedia From the Local: Twenty students from the University of Regensburg plan to live and train in the style of Roman gladiators from 79 AD and stage a battle for scientific research this summer, the project’s Bavarian organisers said on Monday. “We know hardly anything about the gladiators,” historian Josef Löffl said. “There [...]
Guernsey as Roman Trading Post
The incipit of an item at the BBC: A series of finds in 1980s completely changed the perception of the effect the Romans had on Guernsey. Tanya Walls, La Société Guernesiaise archaeology secretary, said before the finds it had been thought they had little influence. However, when evidence of settlements, trade and industry came to [...]
Egalitarian Mycenean Burials?
Most of a very interesting item from the Independent: A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as [...]
This Day inAncient History: pridie kalendas apriles
pridie kalendas apriles rites in honour of Luna at her temple on the Aventine c. 130 A.D. — martyrdom of Balbina 250 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Constantius I Chlorus 307 A.D. – Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of Maximian 1596 — birth of Rene Descartes (author, of course, of that bit of Latin which a pile [...]
JOB: Generalist @ UArizona (one year)
Seen on the Classics list: The Classics Department at the University of Arizona is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor for the academic year 2010-2011 beginning in August of 2010. This is a full time and benefits eligible position. Candidates should be broadly trained classicists prepared to teach six courses (three courses per semester), including one [...]
Burrito Burial From Gabii
This one’s making the rounds and is in multiple copies in my mailbox … excerpts from a very interesting item at the National Geographic. A 1,700-year-old sarcophagus found in an abandoned city near Rome could contain the body of a gladiator or a Christian dignitary, say archaeologists who are preparing to examine the coffin in [...]
Another Collapse at the Domus Aurea
The incipit of a piece from ANSA (tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin): Part of the ceiling of Roman Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea collapsed on Tuesday.Some 60 square meters of the baths built on top of the Golden House by the emperor who succeeded Nero, Trajan, came down because of seepage from recent heavy [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas apriles
ante diem iii kalendas apriles 317 B.C. — death of Phocion (?) 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Quirinus at Rome
Ancient Roman Manga
The incipit of an item from ANSA: Tokyo, March 29 – An Ancient Roman time traveller who shuttles between his own era and modern-day Tokyo is the hero of the comic strip awarded this year’s global manga prize.Lucius, a Roman architect who specializes in designing public baths, stars in a strip called Thermae Romae, which [...]
Restoring a Roman ‘Burial Fresco’
Interesting item from the Triad (I think): The Beirut National Museum has launched a six-month project to restore an ancient fresco of Roman burial rites that was first discovered near the southern city of Tyre in 1937.The fresco, discovered in a cave in the region of Burj Shmali by British excavators, was moved to the Beirut [...]
Satyr on Display
The incipit of an item in Corriere del Mezzogiorno mentions a satyr found at Santa Maria Capua Vetere two years ago, which is apparently a copy of a Praxiteles in the Capitoline Museum: Nel foyer del teatro Garibaldi di S. Maria Capua Vetere, dal 15 aprile al 30 giugno, sarà per la prima volta esposto [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv kalendas apriles
ante diem iv kalendas apriles 119 — martyrdom of Secundus at Asti ca. 311 — martyrdom of Pastor, Victorinus, and companions at Nicomedia
Citanda: Lod Mosaic Coming to the Met
via The Commentator – Lod Mosaic Comes to the Met.
Galaxy Zoo Meets the Oxyrhynchus Papyri?
Saw this inter alia in a piece in Time Magazine: Researchers from other disciplines have begun approaching the Galaxy Zoo team for help sorting their own masses of information. With Galaxy Zoo’s assistance, the Royal Observatory Greenwich just launched Solar Stormwatch, which asks volunteers to track solar explosions captured on video by NASA’s STEREO spacecraft. [...]
Possible Redesign
Currently rogueclassicism is a three-column blog. I’m pondering going to a four-column template in order to incorporate a number of items that I post to twitter which might be of interest which generally don’t get ‘full treatement’ at rc. Would four columns be ‘too much’? (the template provided would put content in the left column [...]
Vergina Restoration Project
Brief item from the ANA: A restoration project of the royal mecropolis and the palace-city of Aigai within the larger archaeological site of Vergina, north-central Greece, will be financed with seven million euros by the National Strategic Reference Framework NSRF. Vergina is the burial site of ancient Macedonian kings, including the tomb of Philip II.The [...]
Akropolis World News
… in Classical Greek: Former KGB spy buys “The Independent” / Health care bill to be voted again / Heroine’s king arrested / Bin Laden threatens Americans again.
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas apriles
ante diem vii kalendas apriles 1546 — death of Thomas Elyot (compiler of the first major (?) Latin-English dictionary) 1859 — birth of A.E. Housman
