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 [...]
