Roger Pearse: Ulansey’s “Origins of the Mithraic mysteries” – reviewed.

I’ve posted this one before, but what the heck … y’all probably need a bit of a breather from all the posting I’m doing tonight, so sit back, relax, and enjoy what our historyteachers friends have put together:

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Berenike Excavations.

About.com Ancient / Classical History: Death of Cicero.

Love of History Blog: Archaeologists in Greece are fired.

[I might be blogging about this myself in the next few days]

History of the Ancient World: Hannibal: The Man, The Myth, The Mystery.

[videos and links!!!]

Roman Times: Review: Lion of the Sun by Harry Sidebottom.

History of the Ancient World: Roman Policy towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century C.E..

Phoenicopolis: Nobis Scribendum Est de Servis Vocabulorum.

Roger Pearse: Mithras in the papyri.

History With A Twist~  Ancient “Fun” Fact of the Day: Ancient Romans Performed Human Sacrifice.

[if you're interested, track down: J. S. Reid, "Human Sacrifices at Rome and Other Notes on Roman Religion, "The Journal of Roman Studies , Vol. 2, (1912), pp. 34-52]

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii Volume III: The Finds in Context: An On-Line Companion.

Pop Classics: Chelmsford 123: Mine’s a Double.

[hmmm ... haven't ever seen Chelmsford 123]

Bread and Circuses: Roman latrines at Housesteads.

[great photo; not quite sure how this one worked, though]

History of the Ancient World: Dating Christmas.

[another academia.edu paper]

Current Epigraphy: Written in Stone: Roman Law, Legal Epigraphy and the Geography of Roman Agriculture, 100 -500 AD.

[gotta win a lottery so I can go to things like this]

History of the Ancient World: Athenian Terms of Civic Praise in the 330s: Aeschines vs. Demosthenes.

Classics Daily: ‘Though I loved you well, I wooed you not’: Troilus and Cressida’s mythological roots.

American Philological Association: APA Blog : Philadelphia Meeting Abstracts.

[still think the APA and/or CAC (maybe CAMWS too) should come up with a web-based app (with an iPod/iPhone/Android companion) that will help you schedule the talks/sessions you want to see]

Laudator Temporis Acti: Punishment, Expiation, and Propitiation.

[on an interesting Lydian inscription]

Blogging Pompeii: Ancient speed dating.

[actually an interesting teaching technique]

Katakolon Museums: The fire pump of Heron.

[I saw a recreation of this thing (or something similar) on some television show; was it the Reinventors? I seem to recall they made it Chinese ...]

History of the Ancient World:  Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas.

['tis the season; might as well have an academic article rather than some journalist's spin ...]

The History of Rome: 161- The Swamps of Ravenna.

[Stilicho and all that ...]

Tip o’ the pileus to Chuck Jones for alerting us to this paper (and others) by Andre Lemaire:

• Remarques sur le contexte historique et culturel de fondation de Carthage