January 4, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia Longtime readers of rogueclassicism may remember a post from a couple of years ago wherein was mentioned the contention that the Capitoline She-Wolf was not as old as we thought (the subject first came to our notice in one of Mary Beard’s posts). At the time, I wondered whether the Chimera of…
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve mentioned these in my Explorator newsletter, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned them here (and I think I missed one in Explorator). Forbes has a very interesting weekly series going on in which Paul Cartledge and James Romm are discussing various aspects of Alexander the Great: Two Great Historians On Alexander…
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Starz is starting to ramp up the hype for its upcoming season of Spartacus … apparently they’re going to have a Facebook game (limited to 10 000 players) and there’s an iPad thingy in the works as well … initial details at: Starz Turns Facebook Into a Roman Empire Arena – WebNewser.
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Over the holidays I stumbled — archaeologist-like — and wrecked my knee; but other than that, I did manage to find The Classicist Blog (about which I was curiously unaware), which is associated with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. It has some interesting items within our purview every now and then, the…
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Image via Wikipedia Wow … a zillion different versions of this one which looks at Kathleen Lynch’s work which she is presenting in a few days at the AIA shindig. Here’s the version from Science Daily: How commonly used items — like wine drinking cups — change through time can tell us a lot about…
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