September 9, 2012
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Time to revive this feature … first, Nuntii Latini From YLE August 31: De conventu republicanorum Tampae, in urbe Floridae, conventus factionis republicanorum habitus est. Quo in consessu candidatus praesidentialis illarum partium officialiter nominatus est Mitt Romney, cuius competitores iam antea certamine inferiores discesserant. Demoscopiae monstrant eum apud populum iam tantundem fere gratia valere ac…
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A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that Pliny the Elder happened to be tweeting the final hours of Pompeii — actually a very interesting project of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In case you missed them, you can check them out at the project’s very nice page … each tweet has a…
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2012.09.18: Irene J. F. de Jong, Space in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol. 3. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 339. 2012.09.17: Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume II: Caesarea and the Middle Coast: 1121-2160. 2012.09.16: Laurent Pernot,…
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posted with permission: A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xxvi + 668; 16 pp. of plates. Hardcover, £120.00/$199.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7936-2. Reviewed by Lee L. Brice, Western Illinois University That we have a Companion devoted to Ancient…
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It was a double issue this week, due to sketchy internet last weekend … as always, most of these have already appeared in these pages but many haven’t. I do hope to give some of them fuller treatement and there are additional links if you want to explore some items a bit further: ================================================================ ANCIENT…