Past Horizons: The Villa Loupian: a Gallo-Roman estate in Languedoc.

History of the Ancient World: Astronomy and ancient Greek cult : an application of archaeoastronomy to Greek religious architecture, cosmologies and landscapes. [another thesis for the 'to read' list ...]

History of the Ancient World: Rites of Passage and their Role in the Socialization of the Spartan Youth.

History of the Ancient World: Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement. [interesting article by Ian Worthington]

Pop Classics: Cleopatra dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963.

History of the Ancient World: Did Ancient Romans Love Their Children? Infanticide in Ancient Rome. [definitely have to put this thesis on the 'to read' list ... I had a section in my thesis/dissertation on evidence for this sort of thing in Roman legal codes]

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Merchant’s Prayer to Mercury.

As most readers of rogueclassicism are probably aware, yesterday the press, academic discussion lists, and social media were ablaze with news of a theft at one of the the museums at Olympia. What follows is an attempt to synthesize the various reports in a useful way … The basic story seems to be thus: at [...]

Page 16 of Fortean Times.

History According to Bob: Death of Mark Antony

Bread and Circuses: Latrines at the Agora in Athens.

The Homer Multitext: The Catalogue of Ships. [Pondering the question of why the Catalogue is so controversial ... good stuff]

TeeGee: Opera Nobilia et al.  Red-Figure Kraters in the Age of Perikles.

languagehat.com: WHY THE ILIAD?. [on the availability of the Iliad in assorted editions in assorted nations]

Interesting item at io9 this week: Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again

Adrienne Mayor ponders the question over at Wonders and Marvels: Ancient Puppy Chow: Dog Food in Classical Greece

Barbara Gold considers what an ancient Valentine card would have been (un)like: Dr. Barbara Gold, Hamilton College – Love in Ancient Rome

Interesting item from Yale Daily News: With the help of one Yale alum, a ’90s historical comic book series is gaining a new, educational edge. Thomas Beasley GRD ’09 said in a Tuesday talk at Sterling Memorial Library that he hopes to put a modern twist on the study of ancient Greek history with the [...]

Assorted outlets in the Italian press are mentioning the excavation of a sculpture, identified as a maenad, from a depth of 27 metres, on the Quirinal. It is thought to date from the third century A.D. and archaeologists involved in the dig think they have found the site of the Temple of Quirinus and are [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: The British School at Athens, an institute for advanced research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, seeks a fixed term (5 year), full-time Curator to manage its research centre at Knossos and to conduct original research. You will be capable of combining academic and managerial tasks in a flexible manner, [...]

Seen on various lists: University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts Assistant Professor in Classics/Biblical Hebrew for 2012-13 Applications are invited for a 9-month position in Classics at the level of Assistant Professor, without review, in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies (CNERS) in the Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. [...]

The incipit of a brief item from UPI: Archeologists found an ancient hut from the Bronze Age during construction work on the southern Italian resort island of Lipari, officials said. The hut was uncovered, along with Roman-era Hellenistic slabs, during work in a town square, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The age of the hut [...]

Seen on the Classicists list: Ruin or Renewal? Places and the Transformation of Memory in the City of Rome The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter Campus) The City of Rome Project (www.city-of-rome.org) 9-10 March, 2012 This conference aims to explore the connections between memory and the topography of the city of Rome, with [...]