… still catching up: Paleolithic seafarers in the Aegean August 29, 2011 Dienekes The Roman Mysteries: The Fugitive from Corinth (TV adaptation) August 29, 2011  (Juliette) Round-Up: August 30 August 30, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Fake metal codices latest August 30, 2011  (Jim Davila) Dollar Bill Latin! (Latin w/ English Subtitles) August 30, 2011 admin The [...]

Some rather turgid prose — and it seems incomplete (?) — from the culture pages of L’Osservatore: A classical author, if he truly has all the trappings of classicism, raises “a monument more enduring than bronze”, according to the proud assertion of Horace (Ode 3.30.1). He is contemporary in every age, and therefore also our [...]

One (of many) which I’ve neglected posting … Carl Sandler Berkowitz alerted us to WAMC’s ‘Academic Minute’ and way back in July, well, here’s the official description: In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Elizabeth Markovits of Mount Holyoke College explains a striking similarity between the plot elements that define Greek tragedy and the democratic process. Elizabeth [...]

From Dan Diffendale: Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA): The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th May 2012 http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tiga The organizing committee at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is pleased to announce a conference on Theory in (Ancient) Greek Archaeology (TiGA). This event is intended to offer an opportunity to [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS Virgil and Renaissance Culture / Virgilio e la cultura del Rinascimento [Website: http://virgil2012.wordpress.com/] A two-day international conference to be held at the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Mantua, Italy, 15-16 October 2012 Organisers: Luke Houghton (University of Glasgow), Marco Sgarbi (University of Verona) Confirmed [...]

The folks at Classics confidential interview Dr Vasiliki Zali  about the recent conference she organized entitled Receptions of Herodotus:

Sorry for the lack of action for the past few days … extraordinary hecticity in the week before school is messing with my attention span. This will probably be the first of a couple of posts like this during the course of the day: Round-Up: August 26 August 26, 2011  (Laura Gibbs) Bioarchaeology of Women’s [...]

Adrian Murdoch resumes the series with one of those emperors who I’ve never actually studied much for reasons unknown: Trebonianus Gallus: Emperors of Rome

From AFP: A sculpture depicting Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods, has been permanently removed from the Acropolis in Athens for safe-keeping, a project supervisor said Saturday. The sculpture — one of the last of the original decorative pieces adorning the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple — will be showcased [...]

Since I say the phrase so much in these ‘pages’, it seems appropriate to point out a photo of an “iridescent pileus cloud’ which was the Astronomy Picture of the Day a couple days ago: via: Astronomy Picture of the Day (August 24, 2011) Of course, it clearly gets its name from the fact that [...]

Image via Wikipedia Okay … this is a strange item of TV hype for a Food Network show which (the hype) is being picked up by all sorts of papers in southeast Asia right now … the incipit  from the Indian version of Yahoo: Food writer Troy Johnson has revealed that cheese is not only [...]

ante diem vii kalendas septembres 55 B.C. — Julius Caesar invades Britain, but doesn’t stick around very long 1875 — Birth of John Buchan, 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir and Governor-General of Canada … and author of a decent biography of Augustus  

In and around the Classical blogosphere t’other day: Round-Up: August 24 August 24, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Make Your Own Fake Lead Codex August 24, 2011 Dorothy King Bibliography: Latin Pronunciation August 24, 2011 classicslibrarian You can’t dream in Latin… August 24, 2011 jm Ancient and modern August 27, 2011 (Peter Jones) Davies on the metal [...]

Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch who pointed the Twitterati to an item at Jonathan Knott’s blog (now added to the curated blogroll) with the above title. The post includes a link to a pdf version of the article (which is also by Jonathan Knott) from the July 2011 edition of Club UK Magazine. [...]

ante diem viii kalendas septembres Opiconsivia — rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus 79 A.D. — death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the [...]

It being the traditional day for the eruption of Pompeii (I don’t think I’ve blogged yet about the alternate day theory), here’s something a bit different I found while poking around looking for Classics-inspired music t’other day: … it’s just audio, so sit back, relax, and imagine August 24, 79 to get in the gloomy, [...]

Around the Classical blogosphere (and environs) yesterday: Decline and Fall of Mr. Gibbon August 23, 2011 Michael Gilleland Bibliographies: Roman Army and Navy August 23, 2011 classicslibrarian Who owns Numismatics? August 23, 2011 Dave Welsh Lead Codices: “Genuine” Forgeries? August 23, 2011 Steve Caruso All the Ways You Can Win Cleopatra’s Moon August 23, 2011  [...]

ante diem ix kalendas septembres rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of the underworld [...]

Singling out a thought-provoking (hopefully)  blogpost over at Wopro: More Reader Mail: How Do We Save Classics? … you’re invited to join the convo … for the record, I’m a big proponent of the ‘promotion’ side of things (obviously … I’ve been ranting about the lack of same from the ‘big organizations’ on that score [...]