Roger Pearse: The text tradition of the Greek artillery manuals.

Hypotyposeis: Indicating Internal Evidence in the Text-Critical Apparatus. [some (useful) sigla used to indicate scribal errors in manuscripts]

Roger Pearse: Translations of the works of Hero of Alexandria.

Roman Religion: Studying Roman Religion – brief history of research. [just discovered this blog this week ...]

Laudator Temporis Acti: Definition of a Scholar.

Love of History Blog: Kylie Minogue and the Classics.

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Athena Protests.

The Homer Multitext: Paradigm Shifts. [on oral traditions, Milman Parry, and the like]

Another thing lurking in the bottom of my mailbox was a link I saved ages ago to a number of magazine covers from assorted late-19th/early-20th century magazines with a Classics bent … one of my faves was this one (via posterclassics.com): I’ll post others from time to time … this one could be such a [...]

My evenings are usually spent reading assorted items in assorted ways on my iPad and one of the many things I do consult is an app/site called The Browser, which collects lengthier items from the web which it considers to be ‘worth reading’. One of their own regular features is something called a ‘Five Books’ [...]

Tip o’ the pileus to David Emery, who sent this one in a few weeks ago (yes, it’s been languishing in my mailbox) … a very lengthy, interesting article on the Getty Aphrodite return in Smithsonian Magazine, written by Ralph Frammolino of Chasing Aphrodite fame: via The Goddess Goes Home (Smithsonian Magazine)

An interesting item the folks at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum were promoting back during Hallowe’en: A Roman Lead Curse Tablet … it involves imprecations hoping for a malaria-like fever to be imposed on someone, specifically before the end of February. Considering that February is a ‘month of fever’, I wonder whether the curse-tablet folks [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Submissions are invited for the 2012 issue of New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. The journal is particularly concerned with promoting the work of scholars (both early career and established) who are new to publishing in the field of Classical Reception Studies. Articles are welcome on any and all aspects [...]

In Classical Receptions Journal 3.2: Simon Perris, Proems, codas, and formalism in Homeric reception … Table of Contents for the November 2011 issue …

From the Cyprus Mail: AUSTRALIAN archaeologists have announced the end of their excavations in Nea Paphos uncovering more of the mediaeval walls built on top of an ancient theatre, and exploring a water fountain a stone’s throw away. A team of 20 archaeologists and students from the University of Sydney opened up two trenches between [...]

From an NBC interview with playwright Tom Jacobson: Q. What projects are you currently working on? A. I’m working on a trilogy about Pompeii: Three full length plays about a Roman family putting on a fake Greek play in their private theater on the day that the Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. I was inspired by [...]

Interesting item from the BBC: An overgrown site on Alderney has been found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in the world. Island tradition had long suggested the site, known as the Nunnery, dated back to Roman times, although excavations since the 1930s had always proved inconclusive. A joint project between Guernsey [...]

Haven’t seen anything about this except at Popular Archaeology: Temple of Aphrodite to be Buried by Urban Progress? … there’s a link to a website devoted to preserving the monument (in Thessaloniki/Thermaikos), but curiously there is no online petition or the like. Not sure whether we’re getting the complete story on this one …

We’re really wandering down a path now … since we’re playing with Classical Tradition type things, another Iliad-related thing I’ve had sitting on the backburner is a metal retelling of the story by Warlord (it’s and 80s metal band, but sounds very 70s):

Speaking of Iliad translations (as Lorelei King and I were just doing on Twitter) reminded me that I don’t think I’ve ever posted this rap(pish) version of the Iliad:

Weekly Weinersmith: Killgrove, Craniums, and Crowdfunding … in case you’ve missed the coverage about Dr Killgrove’s Roman DNA Project …

Saw this mentioned on the Classics list last week … here’s the skinny from one of the official pdfs associated with the contest: The best translation of Iliad, 3.380-420 will win a prize of a class set of The Iliad and a Skype class session with translator Stephen Mitchell. The winning translation will also be [...]

Interesting item which came though the email last week and I only now had a chance to read it … some excerpts: [...] DAVID Guterson is proud of the risk he took in his new novel, Ed King. The Bainbridge Island, Wash. resident and author of Snow Falling on Cedars opted to retell the story [...]

I’m starting the day by going through the Italian press and came across an interesting-sounding exhibition which takes an Early Bronze Age tsunami which hit the region around Salerno: via Dopo lo tsunami Salerno antica, un viaggio nel tempo. I think we need to start a list of such aquatic events in the ancient world [...]