July 31, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia An item up at Fortean Times about Ernst Chladni caught my eye a couple of days ago because it included this paragraph: In fairness to the Age of Reason’s meteorite debunkers, an awful lot of superstition and folk tales fell from the sky. The large meteor that came down on Ensisheim, Alsace,…
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ANA-MPA just set the record, I think, for vagueness in archaeological reporting: A clay vessel and a large fragment of pottery were located at the bottom of the sea by two foreign nationals on board the French flag leisure boat “ISALIO” that had anchored at Garitsa Bay off the Ionian Sea island of Corfu. The…
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We’ve heard of assorted beauty secrets from the Egyptian queen before, but this one is — as far as I can tell — absolutely new: The cosmetics industry is always creating rejuvenation and beauty products. Historical beauty icons often provide inspiration for new formulas to be created. Such is the case of gold lifting, a…
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I don’t think we mentioned that, subsequent to all the news coverage about the possible poisoning of Alexander, Adrienne Mayor’s ‘working paper’ on the subject became available at the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics site: The Deadly Styx River and the Death of Alexander (pdf) Here’s the abstract: Plutarch, Arrian, Diodorus, Justin, and other ancient…
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) In the week of its official DVD release, the Classics Department at the University of Leeds is pleased to ‘Release the Kraken’ with a half-day colloquium on Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans on Friday, 29 October 2010. Schedule…
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