I meant to post a link to this very useful pdf a while ago when it was making the rounds … here’s some background from the intro: This collection is based on presentations given at a half-day workshop held at the Institute of Classical Studies in May 2011. It is aimed at those approaching the [...]

A couple of items of interest which coincidentaly passed under my caerulean gaze this week … first, one of the Discover Magazine blogs confirmed (based on GRE matters) what we all know (but which appears to be a surprise to some): Classicists are Smart! … inter alia: I looked at the average verbal and mathematical [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: CONFERENCE 2012 Friday, 29 June to Sunday, 1 July Ivy House, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK Logos, Mythos, Sophos : Reason and Myth in the Search for Wisdom The Platonic tradition has always embraced both reason and myth in its cultivation of wisdom – but what is their relationship? Are they in [...]

It’s really depressing working through the backlog of Italian press articles tonight … Beyond the attention being paid to the Colosseum and its plight (which I’ll blog about soon … I promise) it’s clear that something is not right with Italian antiquities right now … this Repubblica article details the theft of an amphora and [...]

I doubt this will make it to the English press, but it should … Corriere del Mezzogiorno relates how vandals/tombaroli broke into the archaeological zone at Santa Maria Capua Vetere — the ancient city of Capua — and trashed a number of the Samnite Tombs there. These tombs, among other things, were notable for frescoes [...]

Not a type … saw this in the Gazette … an idea with potential: On her profile, Pandora agonizes about having opened the box. “I am so ashamed,” she writes, “I’ve opened the golden box and thousands of little lizard-looking creatures escaped! I am so worried.” Zeus, who according to his profile was born in [...]

From Colgate University: Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at Colgate, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at [...]