August 19, 2010
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Remember that claimed brothel site with the 97 infant burials from the Yewden Villa in Hambleden? Here’s an incredibly interesting followup: ARCHAEOLOGISTS investigating a mass burial of 97 infants were ‘horrified’ to find what they believe to be the skeleton of a dismembered child. Chiltern Archaeologists suspect the site in Hambleden could have been a…
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An interviewish/reviewish thing with Margaret Reynolds: Interpreting Sappho – RN Book Show – 17 August 2010.
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I’ve already griped about how my low-bandwidth situation while visiting my mother was incredibly annoying when there was big archaeological news, so by way of praeteritio, I won’t mention it again. Even so, another example of which were reports of a tomb find in Milas, Turkey. The initial English report brought back by my spiders …
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A couple of years ago or so I mentioned the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa, which honours a handful of folks in 400 years (still not sure about that number) of Canadian military history. It includes a quotation from the Aeneid: No day shall erase you from the memory of time (Book Nine). Now, interestingly enough…
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ante diem xiv kalendas septembres Vinalia — the second major wine festival of this name celebrated by the Romans 43 B.C. — the future emperor Octavian enters his first consulship; Octavian’s adoption by Julius Caesar formally recognized 14 A.D. — Augustus dies at Nola 232 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Probus 304 A.D.…
rogue classicism 