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Archive for the month “November, 2011”
Blogosphere ~ Death of Horace
About.com Ancient / Classical History: Death of Horace.
Blogosphere ~ Via Egnatia
New at LacusCurtius & Livius: Via Egnatia.
Blogosphere ~ Kate Middleton as ancient Greek Goddess
Love of History Blog: Kate Middleton as ancient Greek Goddess.
Blogosphere ~ Indicating Internal Evidence in the Text-Critical Apparatus
Hypotyposeis: Indicating Internal Evidence in the Text-Critical Apparatus.
[some (useful) sigla used to indicate scribal errors in manuscripts]
Blogosphere ~ Studying Roman Religion – brief history of research
Roman Religion: Studying Roman Religion – brief history of research.
[just discovered this blog this week ...]
Blogosphere ~ Definition of a Scholar
Laudator Temporis Acti: Definition of a Scholar.
Blogosphere ~ Kylie Minogue and the Classics
Love of History Blog: Kylie Minogue and the Classics.
Blogosphere ~ Athena Protests
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Athena Protests.
Blogosphere ~ Paradigm Shifts
The Homer Multitext: Paradigm Shifts.
[on oral traditions, Milman Parry, and the like]
Dulcedo Oculis: Perseus and Medusa on Scena Illustrata
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 cool t-shirt …
Five Books Interviews on Topics Ancient
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’ interview, wherein they interview various personages for recommendations for five decent books on a particular subject. As I burrow through my email box, I notice that I had set aside some of these to post here, but I don’t think I ever did, so:
Also Seen: The Goddess Goes Home
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)
Also Seen: A Roman Lead Curse Tablet @ the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
An interesting item the folks at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum were promoting back during Hallowe’en:
… 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 had a ‘run’ during that month …
CFP: New Voices in Classical Reception Studies
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 of the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity.Papers should not normally exceed 6,000 words (not including endnotes) though shorter papers are also welcome. (If you wish to submit a longer paper, please contact the editor in advance). All submissions will be peer- reviewed by members of an international advisory board. Papers should also be accompanied by a short CV (which will not be sent to the referees. The referee process is mutually anonymous).
The deadline for submissions for the 2012 issue is January 31st 2012. The journal is e-published annually in the late Spring/early Summer. Articles for consideration by the editorial team should be sent to the editor, Dr Trevor Fear (t.fear AT open.ac.uk), as email attachments (contributors are asked to consult the house stylenotes available on the journal’s website prior to sending in submissions). The editor is also happy to receive informal inquiries at any time.
Also Seen: Proems, codas, and formalism in Homeric reception
In Classical Receptions Journal 3.2: Simon Perris, Proems, codas, and formalism in Homeric reception
… Table of Contents for the November 2011 issue …
Latest from the Paphos Dig
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 October 1 and 28 at the site, which marks the spot which was once the capital of the island during the Roman and Hellenistic period.
The team kept a blog throughout the excavations, documenting progress and giving specialists space to explain their role.
“As a supervisor this year, I’d like to motivate my team with helpful phrases like ‘dig harder’… Only joking, everyone is hugely enthusiastic and working as a smooth, well-oiled machine in the trenches,” Rhian Jones wrote on October 5.
The theatre was build around 300BC when the city of Nea Paphos was founded. But earthquakes in the fourth century AD eventually spelled its demise.
The team also explored the nymphaeum – a water fountain house probably built in the first century AD – where people could get fresh cool water.
The nymphaeum was close to the north-eastern city gates and near the theatre’s main entrance.
The team’s main job however was to completely record and interpret finds from previous seasons for an academic publication of the architectural history of the theatre, expected in two years.
The Nea Paphos site is home among others to the House of Dionysus and the House of Orpheus, Greco-Roman house types arranged around a central court; the Villa of Theseus built over the ruins of earlier Hellenistic and early Roman periods; the Agora, whose foundations still remain; one of the largest basilicas built in the fourth century AD; and a Byzantine castle.
- via: Australian team completes Paphos dig(Cyprus Mail)
… we first started paying attention to this dig (it appears) back in June: Finds from Nea Paphos
Seen in Passing: Pompeii Trilogy Drama in the Works
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 the Getty Villa, which was modeled on a villa that was destroyed by the Vesuvius in 79AD. I want to do a play some time at the Getty Villa and I realize that the plays that they do there are adaptations of Greek plays, so I thought, why not write a Greek play.
via A Playwright’s LaLa Land (NBC)
… we’ll keep our jaded eyes open … (not sure whether they should be jaded in this case, but you never know …)
