Templum Pacis to Come to Light! (and more!?)
This is potentially very exciting and I’m surprised it hasn’t been picked up by more English press coverage … the conclusion to a Rossella Lorenzi piece at Discovery News: The centerpiece of the Forum of Peace was indeed the temple. Built in 71-75 A.D by Vespasian, the Temple of Peace celebrated the brutal pacification of [...]
d.m. Bernard Knox
From the New York Times: Bernard M. W. Knox, an authority on the works of Sophocles, a prolific scholar and the founding director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, died July 22 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. The cause was a heart attack, said his son, MacGregor. An American born and [...]
Classical Ink II
None of you classically-inked types have taken up my request for submissions of your bodyart yet, so we’ll post one that showed up in another blog (tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin via Twitter for this one): That one is from Archaeopop, which is always worth a look … As long as we’re talking [...]
Classical Role Models?
An account of the opening of a new high school in Fontana, California includes the following excerpt: “This will have a positive impact across the district,” said Fontana Unified Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks. “It will relieve overcrowding at Fontana High and benefit students instructionally.” The mostly indoor campus is organized under a Greek theme. Teachers will [...]
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms Project
Image via Wikipedia … looks interesting … here’s an excerpt from the project’s webpage: With the support of a team at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and the Cente for e-Research at King’s, Charlotte Roueché will be working with experts on such collections in Greek (Denis Searby, of Uppsala) and in Arabic (Stephan [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas septembres
Image by Gauis Caecilius via Flickr ante diem xv kalendas septembres 29 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Divus Julius (and associated rites thereafter) 2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Florus and Laurus in Illyria 328 A.D. — death of Helena, mother of Constantine
Republican Coins from the UK
I think we’ve mentioned at least one of these coins before; I’m currently in a very low bandwidth internet situation, so I’ll just provide the link for now: via BBC – Treasure claim after Roman coins found near Manchester.
CONF: Cultural History of the Greeks
[seen on Classicists] CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GREEKS Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference 22-23 October 2010 The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia CONVENOR Dr David Pritchard (The University of Queensland) http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/?page=138090&pid=105822 Registration is now open for the Inaugural Queensland Greek History conference, which will be taking place at The University of Queensland on Friday 22 [...]
CONF: Epidemics in Context
[seen on the Classicists list ....] You are cordially invited to attend the conference ‘EPIDEMICS IN CONTEXT’, to be held on 12 and 13 November at the Warburg Institute in London. Please download the poster here: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/colloquia/posters/epidemics.pdf . I would be grateful, if you could put it on your noticeboards. We are also making our [...]
New Classics Major In Buffalo!
Yay! Canisius College will introduce a new bachelor’s degree in classics, the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and the Greek and Latin languages, in fall 2010. The new classics major will prepare students for graduate work in the field and also train a new generation of Latin teachers to meet increasing demand across [...]
This Day in Ancient History: nonas sextilias
nonas sextilias rites in honour of Salus on the Quirinal Hill 465 B.C. — Xerxes I murdered by Artabanus (source?) 244 B.C. — Brundisium becomes a Latin colony ca. 79 B.C. — birth of Tullia, daughter of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1540 — birth of Joseph Justus Scaliger
Testing Blogjet Again
Taking our act on the road; we might have to make use of this …
Webmanager Needed At eClassics
Amicus noster Andrew Reinhard has recently accepted a position as the ASCSA Director of Publications (congrats, by the way) and does not feel he will have time to effectively manage his Ning eClassics forum/site. He is asking whether any folks out there might like to take over his duties there (“post occasional videos, do the [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas sextilias
Image via Wikipedia ante diem iv nonas sextilias 338 B.C. — Death of Archidamus III (King of Sparta) 216 B.C. — Hannibal inflicts a massive defeat on Roman forces at Cannae (possible date) 86 B.C. — Sulla defeats Mithridates at Chaeronea (possible date) 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Afranius and Petreius (legates of Pompey) [...]
