June 6, 2012
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From an American Chemical Society news thingie: A new study puts some finishing touches on the 2,300-year history of the beak-like weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy ships in the First Punic War, the conflict between ancient Rome and Carthage. The report, in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry, also identifies a major threat…
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There have been plenty of non-Classicist commentators dropping the word ‘tragedy’ and making all sorts of facile comparisons to the ancient world in regards to the ongoing debt crisis in Greece … finally, a Classicist — Oxford’s Armand D’Angour — wades in with some useful comparanda. From the BBC: What advice would the ancient Greeks…
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The previously-mentioned video from the ASCSA begins with some upcoming events, among which is mention of a lecture by Fikret Yegül on the looting of Sardis … while we look forward to that being put online, for now we can read a coincidentally-written piece in Athens News on the same subject (advertising the talk, of course):…
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From the ASCSA comes a nice video lecture about the excavations at Corinth from Nancy Bookidis (although she isn’t identified on the ASCSA page itself!!!): VIDEOCAST – Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City
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The final installment:
rogue classicism 