Pompeii and Sodom and/or Gomorrah
The July/August issue of Biblical Archaeology Review has a very interesting article by Herschel Shanks about Jewish oracles relating to the destruction of Pompeii. A useful summary can be found in the Jerusalem Post, post alia: [...] Shanks recently told The Jerusalem Post that the idea to examine a connection between the two events came [...]
Recreating the Heraia on Samos
From ANA: Athletes and volunteers dressed as torch-bearers of antiquity participate in one of several events recreating an ancient festival in honour of the mythical goddess Hera (Heraion), which was held at the port of Pythagorion , on the eastern Aegean island of Samos on Friday 20 August 2010. The ancient Heraia festival served as [...]
Inscriptions from Pompeiopolis
From World Bulletin … there seems to be a persistent misspelling of Pompeiopolis: New inscriptions were unearthed during excavations in Pompeipolis ancient city in Taskopru in the northern province of Kastamonu. Prof. Dr. Christian Marek, who has been examining inscriptions uncovered in Pompeipolis, told the AA correspondent that inscriptions were about festivals of Roman era. [...]
Villa of the Living Mysteries
Blogging Pompeii just alerted us to this one:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas septembres
ante diem x kalendas septembres Vulcanalia — a festival in honour of Vulcan, which included games in the Circus Maximus rites in honour of Maia and the Nymphs rites in honour of Ops Opifera and Hora Quirini 93 A.D. — death of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, and subject of the latter’s [...]
