Also Seen: Excavating Antiochia Hippos
Popular Archaeology: Archaeologists Excavate Magnificent Monumental City of the Decapolis | Popular Archaeology – exploring the past.\ … this is the place where those Roman soldier footprints were found five years ago. I also mentioned in Explorator (but I don’t think I mentioned here) the following pair of videos about the dig (the background music [...]
Emperors of Rome: Valentinian
Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who was arguably the last ‘effective’ emperor: Valentinian: Emperors of Rome
Blogosphere ~ The Two Orients for Greek Writers
History of the Ancient World: The Two Orients for Greek Writers. [from the Kyoto Journal of Ancient History]
Roman Era Shipwreck(s) from Near Irakleio
Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for alerting us to this item from Athens News: Four previously unknown shipwrecks have been discovered some 30 kilometers off the Bay of Irakleio, Crete, in recent underwater exploration conducted by the ephorate of underwater antiquities. The new finds comprise two Roman era shipwrecks, one containing 1st and [...]
Olympia Theft Update II ~ What Was Taken
Dr. Antonis Kotsonas has posted a link on AegeaNet to what is apparently a list of the items stolen from Olympia. It’s here … and you’ll see a couple of Word document icons amongst all the Greek. Click on the second one for a rather large Word document which includes photos.
Olympia Theft Followup
Greek Reporter has an item which, inter alia, suggests the crime was ‘made to order’: People investigating the case of the armed robbery at the Museum of Ancient Olympia say that the 65 stolen artifacts have possibly crossed Greek borders. According to police sources, the case of Ancient Olympia was a made-to-order theft, because the [...]
Also Seen: The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording
Gregory Nagy, The Subjectivity of Fear as Reflected in Ancient Greek Wording via The Center for Hellenic Studies.
Reviews from BMCR
2012.02.37: Louise Calder, Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek Attitudes to Animals, 600-300 BC. Studies in classical archaeology, 5. 2012.02.36: Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Gender-Inszenierungen in der antiken Literatur. 2012.02.35: Michael Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy. Ancients and Moderns. 2012.02.34: Christine Heusch, Die Macht der memoria: Die‚ [...]
Blogosphere ~ British School at Athens Audio/Video Media Library
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: British School at Athens Audio/Video Media Library.
Blogosphere ~ students falling apart 2nd semester???
The Latin Zone: students falling apart 2nd semester???.
Blogosphere ~ Understanding Carthage as a Roman Port
History of the Ancient World: Understanding Carthage as a Roman Port.
Blogosphere ~ Roman Perceptions of Blacks
History of the Ancient World: Roman Perceptions of Blacks. [EA article by Lloyd Thompson]
Blogosphere ~ Metallurgy and the Development of Etruscan Civilisation
History of the Ancient World: Metallurgy and the Development of Etruscan Civilisation. [UCL thesis]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas martias
ante diem x kalendas martias Parentalia (Day 8) — the festival for honouring/appeasing the dead continues 116 A.D. — Trajan is given the title “Parthicus” by the senate for his victories against the Parthians
