June 2, 2010
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Interesting press release from the Getty: The Gela Krater Loan from Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento in Sicily is first Manifestation of Agreement with Sicily At the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa June 1, 2010 through October 2010 The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the installation of the Gela Krater in…
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Image via Wikipedia A very interesting project at Cornell: Scholars looking for multiple sources and translations from among 1,000 years of ancient Greek and Latin texts will have a powerful new tool in their research arsenal with a database being developed at Cornell. The Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB) — a relational database and specialized…
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Chuck Jones just posted about some recently-posted lectures at the Oriental Institute site, so I poked around and found a couple which might be of interest to readers of rogueclassicism: Sea of Galilee Boat Shelley Wachsmann, Texas A&M University Tracing Roman Luxor Michael Jones, Associate Director, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo Past, Present and Future…
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ante diem iv nonas junias Saecular Games continue (day 2) — the celebration of Rome’s anniversary continues 261 B.C. — death of Antiochus I Soter (I have not been able to confirm this date) 177 A.D. — martyrdom of Blandina, Alexander (and others) at Lyons (a.k.a. the Martyrs of Lyons) 193 A.D. — recently-deposed emperor-for-a-little-while Didius Julianus is murdered
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John Ketseas (thanks!) tracks down another one … this time with a photo of one of the missing legs: more: Συμπληρώνεται το παζλ του μυστηρίου των δίδυμων κούρων | Arxaiologia online The article gives us a couple more interesting details, including that the two kouroi have affinities with something called the “Youth of Tenea” which…
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