May 14, 2013
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Peter Heather. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. New York Oxford University Press, USA, 2012. 752 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-989226-6. Reviewed by Christopher Gennari (Camden County College) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2013) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach Peter Heather’s compendium _Empires and Barbarians_ is an impressive work in its…
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Posted with permission: Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii Saturnalia. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Robert A. Kaster. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. lvi + 540. Hardcover, £50.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957119-2. Reviewed by Andrea Balbo, Università di Torino This new critical edition of Saturnalia is the last milestone of a long…
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Over at the CAMWS page there are a couple of items of audio which may be of interest: 2013 Ovationes declaimed in Iowa City by CAMWS Orator James May “An Archaeology of Reading,” the 2013 Presidential address given in Iowa City by President Peter Knox … you’ll have to go to CAMWS’ news page to…
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Interesting item from Fresco di Web. The quickie version is thus: Back in 2004/5 they found anomalies associated with a high metal concentration in a certain area along Lake Trasimeno. In terms of depth, apparently, it corresponds roughly with two millennia ago and so is thought to perhaps be remains of the Roman debacle there…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ron Janoff (of New York Latin Leaflet fame) for alerting us to the existence online of Alice Kober’s papers … there are a pile of (mostly handwritten) letters in there which are definitely a fascinating read and give a glimpse into how Classical research was done before email, twitter, etc.:…
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