Citanda: Pliny — the Elder and the Younger
Mary Beard‘s latest … A Don’s Life by Mary Beard | Times Online.
Vomitorium Watch … Alas …
Image via Wikipedia Hot on the heels of someone actually using the word ‘vomitorium‘ correctly, we lapse into our old sin … and it’s kind of surprising who is doing it. Here’s the incipit from the Times: He owes his success to history, but the author Terry Deary has described historians as “seedy and devious”. [...]
d.m. Tom Elliott (UToronto)
via the Canadian Classical Bulletin
This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas junias
pridie kalendas junias 70 A.D. – Titus captures Jerusalem’s outermost wall. 1st century — martyrdom of Petronilla 170 A.D. — martyrdom of Hermias at Cappadocia 1723 — death of William Baxter (grammarian and translator of Latin)
Branding the Colosseum?
Another item which was making the rounds this week related to the ‘basement’ of the Colosseum being opened up to visitors, e.g., in the Guardian: Tourists in Rome will soon be able to visit the underground of the Colosseum, where gladiators once prepared for fights and lions and tigers were caged before entertaining a bloodthirsty [...]
This Week in Cleopatra News
Most of the press coverage this week comprised of variations on an AP piece on Franck Goddio’s explorations of the underwater ruins of Alexandria, with a special focus on Cleopatra’s palace (to coincide with the exhibition in Philadelphia). Here’s the incipit of a representative item: Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the [...]
Citanda: Imperial Villas
Nice feature in Smithsonian Magazine about Imperial villas outside the big city: Home Away From Rome | Smithsonian Magazine.
Akropolis World News
In Classical Greek: Maoists in India kill 73 / Bomb of WWII in Berlin / Kremlin wants again old soviet limousines
Citanda: Roman Food at the British Museum – Cooking the Aspicius Recipes
A rather ‘inaspicious’ typo in that headline … Roman Food at the British Museum – Cooking the Aspicius Recipes | Heritage Key.
Non-Destructive Analysis of Coinage
Interesting … Demonstrating that chemistry sometimes can inform history, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Colorado College and Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., have shown that sensitive nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques can be used to determine the elemental composition of ancient coins, even coins that generally have been considered [...]
Vomitorium … Someone Gets it Right!
Kudos accrues to Ian Shuttleworth in the Financial Times! The Old Market is not as accommodating a theatre space as it appears: playing on three sides like this puts the performers some distance away from the main bank of audience. However, director Jo McInnes counteracts this by smart use of vomitorium aisles for entrances, exits [...]
Cleopatra Podcast Redux
Not sure why these weren’t showing up before, but it is clear the OUP blog’s Cleopatra Podcast, which we mentioned last week, has had two further installments (as you recall, these are connected to Duane Roller’s recent biography of the queen) … all three installments are available at: Cleopatra Podcast: OUPblog.
Heavy Rain Uncovers an Iberian Necropolis
Some problems in translation, alas: These works have recovered more than twenty burials, mostly groups, which are dated the first century BC and show clear Iberian cremation rites. Iberian necropolis dated 100 BC in Arjona (Jaén) Heavy rain in Arjona uncovers the further remains The accidental finding in Arjona (Jaén) was discovered in the remains [...]
Latest Italian Bust
Italian police in the Sicilian capital Palermo have seized ancient artefacts after several raids which uncovered an alleged operation that used the Internet for selling the finds. Since the beginning of the year Operation Archeweb has found 69 suspicious pieces in the hands of alleged traffickers. Police specialising in protecting cultural patrimony have seized small [...]
What To Do With A Classics Degree
Interesting job/life: Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself “the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book.” Of course, that book is “the” Book, the Bible. [...]
The Latest Bulgarian Bust …
The Bulgarian police have busted a 41-year-old priest, who organized illegal antiques’ sale over the internet. The priest, identified at D.I., employed by the Vratsa Eparchy, managed to conduct over 1 000 illegal deals in the course of just several months, the Interior informs. He was arrested and pre-trail proceedings were launched. The police have [...]
Herculaneum Papyri and the EDUCE Project: Update
Image via Wikipedia I think the last time we heard of this was back in July of last year; seems they’re having some difficulties: Some 2,000-year-old Roman scrolls are stubbornly hanging onto their ancient secrets, defying the best efforts of computer scientists at the University of Kentucky to unlock them. The researchers have learned much [...]
Citanda: Are We Going The Way Of The Roman Republic?
Joe Costello (one of the guys behind a couple of failed presidential campaigns) in Business Insider .. very Mommsen-influenced: Are We Going The Way Of The Roman Republic?.
Medusaceratops
Image via Wikipedia The incipit of an item in the Vancouver Sun: Two Canadian scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of horned dinosaur — a seven-metre-long, magnificently adorned predecessor of the famed Triceratops — that gobbled plants near the present-day Montana-Alberta border nearly 80 million years ago. The stunning new species has [...]
The Dire State of Ancient History in the UK
Constantina Katsari at the Love of History Blog (tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer) in the wake of the Baynes Meeting … inter alia: The quality of the hotel matched the depressing atmosphere of the Meeting. It became obvious from the very beginning that most of my colleagues were concerned with the situation in [...]
ED: Summer Vergil Course
Seen on Classics (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Dear List-Members, I would like to announce the following Latin course to be held at Montclair State University in Summer 2010: The Epic and Vergil (July 12-Aug.5, 3 credits) In this four-week intensive course, students will read in [...]
CFP: Athenian Hegemonic Techniques
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Papers are invited for a panel entitled ‘Athenian Hegemonic Techniques’ which will be held at The Sixth Celtic Conference in Classics (University of Edinburgh, July 28-31, 2010) and chaired by Thomas Figueira. Although a major theme will be [...]
CONF: Aratus Day at St Andrews
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Please note that a one-day conference on ‘Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition’ will be held on Friday 18th June 2010, in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. All those interested in attending should contact Emma Gee, [...]
Classical Receptions, May 2010
Latest online content includes an editorial by Lorna Hardwick and an article by Joshua Billings: “Hyperion’s symposium: an erotics of reception” (plus assorted payfer content, of course) Classical Receptions Journal.
Ancient Greek in the Park
ANCIENT GREEK IN THE PARK coming to a park near you! Educational charity The Iris Project will be starting up a new series of free lessons for adults and families this spring and summer across parks in Oxford and London, introducing the fascinating language of the ancient Greeks. These sessions will be starting in London’s [...]
