Seen on the Digital Classicist list: Call for Papers: ‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium 5th September 2011, King’s College London The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography. [...]

Lindsay Powell interviews Matthew Dennison, author of the recently reviewed book, Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography for the folks at UNRV. via Interview with Matthew Dennison. The review (also by Lindsay Powell) can be read here, in case you miss the link: Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography by Matthew Dennison

Latest item within our purview from Better Book Titles:

… as Cleopatra. Very nice: Liz Taylor: Making ‘Cleopatra’ – Photo Gallery – LIFE.

Seen on the Classicists list: Myth and Literature in Ancient Philosophy Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge 15-16 April 2011 For more details or to register please visit the conference website. Programme Friday, 15 April 1330-1500 Keynote: Prof Catherine Osborne (University of East Anglia), ‘Literary Genres and Judgements of Taste: Aristotle on Empedocles and Plato [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: The British Epigraphy Society Spring Colloquium: ‘New Discoveries in Greek Epigraphy’ Saturday 7 May 2011, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester Programme 10.30 -11 am: Coffee and Registration 11 am-12 noon: P. Thonemann (Wadham, Oxford), ‘Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: New Monuments from Roman Asia Minor?’ 12 noon -1 p.m.: [...]

I’ve known James Pfundstein for years on the Classics list and didn’t know he did this sort of thing … from the BG News: Professor James Pfundstein not only lectures on the classics to University students, but he also finds time to be a writer. “Well, let’s say I have to [write], so I sneak [...]

Eric Cline writes in: To all – You may have already received this yesterday, sent from GW Media Relations (since I put you on the list), but the George Washington University Capitol Archaeological Institute announced yesterday that it has launched an initiative to protect Egyptian antiquities from illicit trade around the world. The institute identified [...]

A while back we had a few posts about the discovery of — and peril to — the remains of the Aqua Traiana by the O’Neills … today they write to tell me they have set up a website on this and some related items: Aqueducthunter.com has eight pages of information on the Santa Fiora [...]

Adrian Murdoch continues his series with the first of a bunch of really good guys: Nerva: Emperors of Rome

ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts  

Richard Campbell sent this one along; really a series of lectures rather than a conference per se … from a page at the National Gallery of Art:   The Sixtieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the National Gallery of Art’s [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: We invite offers of papers for the forthcoming workshop: “Burial and social change in ancient Italy, 9th-5th century BC: approaching social agents”. The workshop will be held at the British School at Rome on June 7th 2011. With its great regional diversity and variety of community forms and networks, Italy [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Deadline approaches: March 25 European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting Oslo, Norway — September 14-18, 2011 — http://www.eaa2011.no/ Tattoos and Body Modification in Antiquity – Part II Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt Session Abstract: From Oetzi the Iceman to today’s full-sleeved and pierced urbanite, it seems that body modification [...]

Seen on the LatinTeach list: Summer is in sight, and summer means conversational Latin conventicula! On June 27-29, Neil Coffee and I will be hosting the Conventiculum Buffaloniense at the University of Buffalo, SUNY campus. More information about the conventiculum is available at http://classics.buffalo.edu/events/buffaloniense/. On this website, you will find a description<http://classics.buffalo.edu/docs/ConventiculumBuffaloniense2011.pdf>of this year’s Underworld-themed [...]

A good introductory article (and available for free!), although perhaps a bit presumptuous title-wise for readers of this blog): The Oxyrhynchus Papyri | Biblical Archaeology Review .

I’ve been delinquent in posting this, I think … here’s a huge list of items from my blogroll which caught my eye over the past month or so (in no particular order); as can be seen, it’s been a very busy month in the Classical Blogosphere: From Roger Pearse: The resurrection of Dionysus every spring? [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: 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 codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one of [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities: Call for Papers An international conference to be held at Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition. Confirmed speakers include: David Halperin (U Michigan), Ralph J. Hexter (University [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Land and natural resources in the Roman World Brussels, 2011, Thu. 26th – Sat. 28th May (The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium & Free University of Brussels) For details on the program, registration, locations and accommodations see our website: http://www.rsrc.ugent.be/LNR_Colloquium_2011 or contact Paul Erdkamp (perdkamp AT vub.ac.be) Koen Verboven (UGent) [...]