… 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