November 3, 2011
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Seen on the Classicists list: Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh, 4-6th July 2012 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS While the representation of the ancient world in modern popular culture has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years, ancient popular culture has generally…
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I’ve only watched a few minutes of this one, but it looks really interesting … Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino give a lengthy talk on their Chasing Aphrodite tome and how the Getty managed to get itself entangled in all that mess:
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We mentioned a few days ago that there were reports that the Benghazi Treasure had been looted from a vault in, of course, Benghazi (see: Benghazi Treasure Looted from Libya!!!!) and there have been plenty of subsequent reports, all very vague as to the contents of the ‘treasure’, with passing mention of coins and statuary.…
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ante diem iii nonas novembres 39 A.D. — birth of the poet Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanus (et al) at Caesarea
rogue classicism 