Ages ago I mentioned the Classics Confidential folks and trusted youtube to inform me of updates … so I’m way behind … in this one, Dr Paolo Monella explains a paper he presented which draws on the ancients to rethink the idea of copyright:

ante diem iv kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 10) 67 A.D./C.E. — fighting in Jerusalem between pro-surrender-to-the-Romans groups and their counterparts; the former set fire to some food supplies which apparently contributed to the fall of the city three years later (!) (need to track this one down) ca. 260 — martyrdom of Lucilla [...]

An item in the Connecticut newspaper The Day: To boldly go where no one has gone before led me to a very interesting site to follow Robert Ballard’s latest endeavours. He’s currently doing the sidescan sonar thing off Turkey looking for potential sites etc., and it’s all being streamed live … there isn’t a heckuva [...]

The BBC is on the story: The 1,800-year-old human remains were exhumed in the city over the past decade and will be displayed in an empty shop throughout the summer. Archaeologists say the discovery suggested the site was only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery in the world. The exhibition will feature the skeletons and objects which [...]

Around the Classical blogosphere the past few days … The Tombstone of Regina (South Shields) July 28, 2011 Dorothy King Bibliographies: Aeschylus July 28, 2011 classicslibrarian APA Blog : Spring 2011 Newsletter July 28, 2011 What Did the Romans Use for Toilet Paper? July 28, 2011 (N.S. Gill) Bibliography: A Hellenistic Bibliography (Post-Classical Greek Poetry) [...]

Pop culture takes Cleopatra and Helen of Troy into an entirely new area: Source Source The ad campaign also has a video with some, er, allusions

Cleopatra is suddenly popping up all over the place again, so it’s probably time for a cranky post to bring folks up to speed thereon. But by way of captatio benevolentiae, however,  I’ll mention again my trip to the Royal Ontario Museum last month and one of their ‘iconic pieces’ which (again) I’ve managed to [...]

Tip o’ the pileus to Martin Conde for alerting us to this find being reported in Corriere della Sera … here’s the important bit: Colle Oppio delle meraviglie. Un nuovo Apollo emerge dalle viscere del colle. Per Roma è un evento, un nuovo eccezionale ritrovamento a due passi dalla Domus Aurea, dal Colosseo e dall’area [...]

Where some Romanophiles fear to tread: Great post at Italy's Secret Places on Mussolini's obsession with Ancient Rome bit.ly/qa5gIZ— three pipe problem (@3pipenet) July 28, 2011

ante diem v kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 9) ca 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Nazarius and Celsus

From Zee News … it’s a bit vague and doesn’t say why they think it’s Philip’s, other than it happens to be a tomb in Heirapolis: The tomb of Saint Philip, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ, has been discovered in Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday. The discovery was made in [...]

From the Evening Telegraph: An ancient Roman village dating back almost 2,000 years has been uncovered in the north of the county. The farmstead was unearthed in Higham Road, Burton Latimer, and archaeologists believe it would have been fully functional in the second century AD. Artefacts including coins and jars have been found at the [...]

Okay … this is officially the first thing that has come to my attention via Google+ … the Sun seems to have something called ‘Hold Ye Front Page’ which are front pages of the Sun for historical things, I guess. Archimedes jumping out of his bath is the subject of this one: 240 BC: Genius [...]

From the Telegraph (tip o’ the pileus to Tim Parkin): Simon Price, who has died aged 56, was among our era’s most innovative and versatile historians of the Greco-Roman world. Price was a central contributor to the remarkable recent revival of academic interest in ancient Roman religion, but his interests were much broader. He wrote [...]

From Hurriyet: A relief depicting a 2,000-year-old chariot race scene and new gladiator names has been discovered at an archeological dig in Muğla, proving the area was an important center for sporting events. “We have found a block with a relief of a chariot race scene,” said Professor Bilal Söğüt, head of the excavation from [...]

My spiders have clearly been wandering down interesting sideroads on the information super highway … they brought back an image from Wikicommons, and it turns out the whole mid-19th century book is online at the Posner Library. There is lots of text, but the ‘comics’ are really interesting and could spice up a lecture or [...]

My spiders brought back this interesting blog post about the Foulis brothers’ mid-eighteenth century edition of Homer’s works. Here’s a bit of a tease in medias res: “Robert Foulis (1707-1776) and Andrew Foulis (1712-1775) were at the forefront of the print trade in 18th century Glasgow and they contributed greatly to the development of Enlightenment [...]

Interesting that hot on the heels of the Carthage podcast we posted yesterday (scroll down a bit), that we get another one from ABC (Australia) Radio. In this case, they’re talking with Richard Miles, who is an ancient historian from the University of Sydney, and who has recently wordprocessed a tome called Carthage Must Be [...]

Rather than the usual tossing off of the phrase ‘tragedy’, this one actually applies the Poetics to Amy Winehouse’s death: via The destruction of Amy Winehouse: a proper Greek tragedy | The First Post.

I posted this on Twitter last night, but there are probably a lot of non-Twitter folks who would be interested in this post at Ancient Digger: Ancient Digger Archaeology: Best Graduate Schools for Classical Archaeology.