Sagalassos Dig Resumes
Image via Wikipedia This season’s excavations of the ancient city of Sagalassos, located in south-western Turkey, have begun, the head of archeological research project Dr. Inge Uytterhoeven announced recently. This year’s excavations will involve 51 workers and 75 Turkish and foreign technical personnel, Dr. Uytterhoeven, who is also a lecturer at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in [...]
Citanda: Radio Bremen’s Nuntii Latini
Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010 via Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010.
Citanda: New Voices Journal – Issue 5
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Issue 5 of the journal New Voices has now been published and is accessible from http://www2.open.ac.uk/newvoices. Contents: The Reception of the Ichneutai in the Modern Arabic World Mohammad Almohanna, University of Nottingham Myself, Split Open: Ovid, Rukeyser, and [...]
d.m. Herbert and Eve Howe
Image via Wikipedia Herbert M. Howe, emeritus professor and former chair of both Classics and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), passed away on Tuesday, June 29 in Fort Atkinson. He was 98. His spouse and colleague in ILS, Evelyn Mitchell (Eve) Howe, passed away two days later, at age 94. A memorial service commemorating the Howes’ [...]
Massive Roman Coin Find from Wiltshire
What will likely be a pile of coverage just starting on this one … here’s the incipit what the Telegraph says: David Crisp, a 63-year-old hospital chef, located the 52,503 coins in a single earthenware pot in a field near Frome, Somerset. Mr Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire, said his detector gave a “funny signal” [...]
CONF: Rhetoric Event at Newcastle University
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) RHETORIC WORKSHOP Saturday July 10th 2010, Bamburgh Room, King’s Road Centre, Newcastle University (see this link for advice on travel and maps: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/travel/). The event is free; but please let contact Jennifer.Richards AT ncl.ac.uk so that she can [...]
CONF: Rethinking the Gods
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Rethinking the Gods: Post-Classical approaches to sacred space An International Conference to be held at Oxford, 21-23 September 2010. How and why did sacred space change? This conference aims at exploring the sanctuaries of Greece in the tumultuous [...]
CONF: Aeneas Tacticus
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Aeneas Tacticus War, Politics and Literature in Classical Greece Conference 2nd-4th September 2010 at Gregynog Hall (near Newtown/Powys) More information can be found at www.aeneastacticus.net. Registration starts now! For enquiries and bookings please contact Maria Pretzler – m.pretzler [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii idus iulias
Image by Martin Beek via Flickr ante diem viii idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 3) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a [...]
