The KCL History of Philosophy series now has its own site: http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/— Terrence Lockyer (@TLockyer) January 30, 2011 … very nice; they’re done the preSocratics (14 podcasts), the Sophists, and Socrates and are just getting into that Plato guy …

Tom Payne gives the big contest a Classics spin over at ESPN: via Super Bowl XLV: Fame, celebrity and precedents from ancient Greece and Rome | ESPN. Here’s a brief excerpt: The ancient Greeks set the precedent. Admittedly, a mini-season of tragic plays in the fifth century BC didn’t attracted 153 million viewers, but we [...]

Interesting item: Our past shapes our present. How did stories of the Trojan War resonate w/ both ancient Greeks & medieval Europeans? http://bit.ly/gWDPKY— J. Paul Getty Museum (@GettyMuseum) January 31, 2011

Image via Wikipedia There are various versions of this one bouncing around, but my innate Canadianess almost forces me to use this version from Kathimerini: Trireme in New York City Inc, a US-based group of history buffs, is trying to raise the $3 million it will take to get an ancient Greek warship sailing in [...]

Image via Wikipedia From the Toledo Blade: Richard M. Krill, 72, a longtime professor of the classics and a chairman of the department of foreign languages at the University of Toledo who taught Latin to high school students after his retirement, died Jan. 15. Mr. Krill of Toledo died at Sunset House of corticobasal degeneration, [...]

Adrian Murdoch continues his look at the Roman emperors: Emperors of Rome: Nero

20+ theses from Leicester on a pile of interesting topics: Leicester Research Archive: Ancient History.

Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): The Department of Greek and Latin at University College, London, is delighted to invite you to our 2011 Greek play, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre. The play will run from Tuesday 8th – [...]

Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): ANCIENT CARTHAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL CONTACT Invitation to a Workshop ‘RECEPTIONS OF CARTHAGE AND THE PHOENICIANS’ (Apologies for cross-posting) SATURDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2011 Ritson Room Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Durham 38 [...]

Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: MENANDER IN CONTEXTS July 23-25, 2012 University of Nottingham, UK It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo [...]

Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): CALL FOR PAPERS Colloquium – Monday, 20th June, 2011 – to be held in the History Department of University College London. West meets East: Contact and Interaction between India and the Mediterranean World from the [...]

Seen on the Classicists list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): SILIUS ITALICUS AND FLAVIAN CULTURE 4th-6th July 2011 Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) The University of Sydney Pacific Rim Latin Literature Conference 2011 in association with the Flavian Epic Network [...]

From the mailbag (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Colloquium for Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting 2012, to be held in Philadelphia, PA 5th-8th January 2012. Title: The Economic Role of Greek Fineware Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean. While quantitative studies on the location, use, [...]

I meant to post this a few days ago (tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer): In Our Time, Aristotle’s Poetics | BBC Radio.

Seen on the Rome-Arch list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Tenure Track Faculty Hire in Art History and Classics Ancient Visual Culture Digital Humanities Initiative University of Georgia The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia invite [...]

Tip o’ the pileus to John Younger for posting notice of this to AegeaNet via the University of Heidelberg: Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos (London).

Seen on the Classics list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Amphora, the Outreach publication of the American Philological Association, is seeking two classicists, preferably with university, secondary school or equivalent institutional associations, a record of publication, and editorial experience to serve as its Editor and [...]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,Two days ago we published three supplements, and would like to offer them to our individual subscribers at an even lower price until February 28th: S80. ROMAN SCULPTURE IN ASIA MINOR. Proceedings of the International Conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Italian excavations at Hierapolis in Phrygia, edited by F. [...]