Another Bulgarian Bust … Coins This Time
I’m always curious what happens to the artifacts ‘after’ … A young Bulgarian in possession of 130 ancient coins was stopped on the Greece-Turkey border, police in the north-eastern Greek city of Komotini announced today. Intercepted at the border crossing in the town of Kastanies yesterday, the man – whose identity has not been revealed, [...]
Citanda: The Punder Years
Here’s another one for your rss reader … the ‘Word Lizard’ has an interesting little blog on puns, usually with some historical connection … the most recent post, e.g., includes the phrase ‘Curculio vespertilio’ ; you’ll have to visit for the context (put your groaning pads on first): The Punder Years – A Pun Blog.
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater @ the Getty
From a Getty Press release: The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, on view at the Getty Villa from August 26, 2010 – January 3, 2011, is the first exhibition in the United States in over fifty years to focus on the artistic representation of theatrical performance in ancient Greece. Assembling international loans of antiquities from [...]
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Time Team Finds a Roman Villa!
Image via Wikipedia But we have to wait a while for the television program: A GLIMPSE of life under the Romans has been unearthed by TV star Tony Robinson and his Time Team archaeologists in the village of Castor. Filming in the historic grounds of St Kyneburgha Church for the BBC show, to be broadcast [...]
Pondering the Wine Dark Sea
The incipit of a review of Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass … looks interesting: This tale begins with a Liberal leader and his innovative exploration of the colour blue. Not Nick Clegg and the Tories, but William Gladstone and his concern about Homer’s use of colour in The Iliad and The Odyssey. Gladstone was [...]
Citanda: Mithraism
A reasonable overview: Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire | New American.
*Sir* Fergus Millar
Image via Wikipedia The incipit of the BBC’s coverage of the Queen’s Birthday Honours list: A retired Oxford professor of ancient history is to be awarded a Knighthood in the Birthday Honours List for services to Scholarship. Fergus Millar, 74, was Camden Professor of Ancient History Emeritus, Oxford University until he retired in 2002. He [...]
Iran’s Salt Men Saved!
Image via Wikipedia On the periphery of our purview, sort of, semi- … The ancient Iranian “salt men” have been saved from decomposition. “The salt men are currently kept in special showcases under controlled conditions at the Zolfaqari Museum,” the Zanjan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department (ZCHTHD) director said in a press conference on [...]
CONF: APGRD Conference: ‘Choruses: Ancient and Modern’
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk) is delighted to announce the Annual Conference 2010 Choruses: Ancient and Modern (13-14 September 2010) University of Oxford For more information and to register for the conference please contact Naomi Setchell, APGRD Archivist/Administrator (naomi.setchell AT classics.ox.ac.uk). The registration fee is £25. Several student bursaries are [...]
CONF: Codex Gregorianus workshop/Projet Volterra colloquium 3 (9-10 July 2010)
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Projet Volterra II: Law and the End of Empire ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/volterra ) Colloquium 3: The Imprint of Roman law in Lombard and Carolingian Italy / Public Workshop on The Codex Gregorianus 9-10 July 2010 Rooms 1.01-1.02, 23 Gordon [...]
