August 17, 2011

  • House of the Vestals

    I think back in February I missed posting about the House of the Vestals in Rome being opened to the public. Here’s a nice AP video that popped up:

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  • Can’t say that I like the latest trio of short vids from the ROM … we mentioned the meh factor in the Pantheon video (below), and now I’ve been alerted to two others … the first is  ostensibly on ‘Bread and Games’, but really is about the theatre in Bosra and doesn’t really say anything…

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  • … and now we catch up with what was posted yesterday or so:   Round-Up: August 16 August 16, 2011  (Laura Gibbs) Say It in Latin!: Nearly 1, 000 Useful Quotes,,GOOD Bo August 16, 2011 admin Bibliographies: Roman Law August 16, 2011 classicslibrarian Are you looking at me? August 16, 2011 Alun Salt Roman Mosaics…

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  • Pantheon

    Latest video from the folks at the Royal Ontario Museum … Trinity Jackman tells us where the name comes from: … kind of ‘meh’ given that the monument was recently in the news with a semi-new theory …

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  • Liz Glynn and Schliemann

    Interesting little excerpt from the middle of an item in the Los Angeles Times: Liz Glynn’s studio, on the second floor of a mildly shabby Chinatown office complex, is modest in size and extremely cluttered. Shelves are crammed with boxes and bins; tables are loaded with books, piles of snapshots, and odds and ends from…

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