December 13, 2012
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From the University of Kentucky: Over the summer a team of faculty and students from University of Kentucky discovered evidence of not just one lost community, but two in northern Italy. Using their archaeological expertise and modern technology, the team collected data that indicates the existence of a Roman settlement and below that, a possible…
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posted with permission: Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of a review that originally appeared in CJ-Online last May. See the author’s note 1 for the differences between the two versions. Roman Urban Street Networks: Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities. By Alan Kaiser. Routledge Studies in Archaeology, 2. New York…
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From the Northern Echo: A SOLID link to the real Roman past has been uncovered beneath one of the region’s greatest places of worship. During construction work for a new visitor development in the undercroft of York Minster a team of archaeologists have unearthed an intact section of Roman road. The road is believed to…
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Meant to put this one up a while ago … Caroline Bird talks about her interpretation/rewrite of Trojan Women:
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idus decembres Rites in honour of Tellus, the earth goddess which perhaps included a lectisternium (a ‘dinner party’ at which images of the god(s) would ‘dine’ with participants) in honour of Ceres. 405 B.C. — battle of Aegospotami (by one reckoning) 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucy of Syracuse 1783 — Death of Samuel Johnson
rogue classicism 