Nice introduction to the subject in Smithsonian Magazine: Reading the Writing on Pompeii’s Walls |Smithsonian Magazine.
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Romans in Wales
Posted: July 28, 2010 by rogueclassicist in Archaeology, Romans in Britain, UncategorizedTags: Roman Wales
Wow … the archaeologist types in Wales keep coming up with discoveries. In the past week, I’ve read of three major finds … typically, things from Wales don’t seem to make it beyond the local papers, but the first two items are a bit different. Here’s the Telegraph coverage about a Roman villa find in [...]
Also seen: Other famous dads who might have inspired DoNotVoteForMyDad.com
Posted: July 28, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedInter alia: -Agamemnon. According to legend, this ancient Greek king sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia so the ships would sail. Her website might have run more along the lines of DoNotMakeMyDadYourHereditaryMonarch.com … I’m sure there’d be pop up ads from carpet distributors and ax manufacturers … via PostPartisan – Other famous dads who might have inspired [...]
iPhone auto-corrects ‘Gordian’ to ‘hoedown’. Apple need to invest in some classical education for their software engineers. via Tweets for week ending 2010-07-25 | JamesCousins.com.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Greek Memories: Theory and Practice Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University Ritson Room, 27-28 September 2010 Memory, and its correlate, forgetting, are at the centre of a recent surge of studies focused on the construction of [...]
So there was a bit of twitter chatter about the Daily Mail’s claims about celebrity tattoos ‘causing’ a revival of interest in Latin, and it was decided that we’d start a new feature here which possibly is a bit more realistic in regards to Latin and tattoos by showcasing the Latin/Classical ink festooning the dermises [...]
From the BBC comes a video report summarizing the recent renovations on the Acropolis and plans to cash in on Plato: A Museum for Plato?, posted with vodpod
Metis: a Wesleyan Undergraduate Journal
Posted: July 24, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Wesleyan University
Image via Wikipedia One from deep, deep inside my mail folder (from over a month ago): The Greek Titan Metis was considered the goddess of wisdom and deep thought. Her name in Greek also means “wisdom combined with cunning,” a highly desirable personality trait to the ancient Athenians. This year, a group of Wesleyan students [...]
The folks at Mental Floss tell us Diogenes was the “Henny Youngman of philosophers” … Teachings of Diogenes.
In addition to the job listings (see below), new at the APA site today is the latest edition of Amphora, which appears to be the only one we’ll be seeing this year, alas, due to financial constraints … I’m still trying to decide whether it is reasonable to expect folks to pay 10.00 for two [...]
Well, today my twitterfeed and Facebook feed has been inundated with this video on the plural of octopus (tip o’ the pileus to Terrence Lockyer, Francesca Tronchin, and a few others): … fwiw, being a Classicist, rogue or otherwise, using octopodes is one of the few times you get to use your Greek plural endings [...]
From Eurasianet: Archeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the grave of a gold-clad ancient Scythian warrior who has already earned himself a nickname: “The Sun Lord.” Researchers uncovered the find in a Scythian grave consisting of seven burial mounds in Karaganda Region east of the capital, Astana. The opulence of the warrior’s burial indicates that he [...]
It seems to be a bit of a slow news day, and while I procrastinate finishing the office clean up, I’ve done some housekeeping items which I’ve had on the list for a while. Specifically, my ‘Classical Blogosphere’ (i.e. the blogroll) is now in the sidebar ‘below the fold’. At the bottom of the page [...]
Marathon 2500th Anniversary
Posted: July 19, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Battle of Marathon, Marathon, Pheidippides
I’m semi-surprised there hasn’t been a bit more hype for this upcoming anniversary … I know they’re planning a number of ongoing events at Oxford, but really haven’t heard much else. This item comes from Reuters: Exactly two and a half millennia after the Battle of Marathon, an event widely acknowledged to have ensured the [...]
Ecce: Starz casts Spartacus prequel | Reuters.
Interesting little debate … A symposium starring Aristotle and Ayn Rand | World Net Daily.
Classicist Smackdown over Two Year Degrees in the UK
Posted: July 15, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Classics, India Lenon, Oxford Classicist, Vince Cable
Image via Wikipedia Someone of importance in the UK has apparently suggested that two year degrees are feasible … if not desireable. In the Telegraph, Classicist Harry Mount seems to agree: The myth still exists that giving students lots of time to themselves to work produces much better results than locking them up in a [...]
Hmmm … been working on it for three years but it’s still in the ‘development stage’ … kind of sounds like a Hannibal flick that we kept hearing about that still hasn’t materialized … Brett Ratner’s Herculean task? | Los Angeles Times.
Obviously marking his birthday: Julius Caesar | Oxford DNB: Lives of the week. In case this shifts over the next few days, here’s the ODNB main page …
A touristy sort of thing: Roman theatre brings the past to life | NZ Herald News.
In my never-ending quest to ensure journalists ‘get it right’, from an ABC piece about eating disorders, inter alia: Contrary to popular belief, vomitoriums were not used by the Roman elite to get rid of their stomach contents. The vomitorium is an architectural structure within the Roman amphitheatre, designed to alleviate crowds by allowing the [...]
Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010 via Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2010.
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Issue 5 of the journal New Voices has now been published and is accessible from http://www2.open.ac.uk/newvoices. Contents: The Reception of the Ichneutai in the Modern Arabic World Mohammad Almohanna, University of Nottingham Myself, Split Open: Ovid, Rukeyser, and [...]
How America Got Its Name: A Semi-Classical Connection
Posted: July 3, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Amerigo Vespucci, Martin Waldseemüller, Matthias Ringmann
Some interesting excerpts from a piece in the Boston Globe: [...] If you’re like most people, you’ll dimly recall from your school days that the name America has something to do with Amerigo Vespucci, a merchant and explorer from Florence. You may also recall feeling that this is more than a little odd — that [...]
Pondering the ‘Plato Code’
Posted: July 3, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: History of philosophy, Plato, University of Manchester
Image by Image Editor via Flickr Over the past few days, my email box has been pretty much flooded with scores (yes, scores) of folks sending in various versions of articles dealing with Jay Kennedy’s suggestion of a ‘hidden code’ in Plato’s works. There are too many of you to thank individually, so a general [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi nones quinctilias
Posted: July 2, 2010 by rogueclassicist in Uncategorizedante diem vi nones quinctilias ca 68 A.D. martyred soldiers of Rome
… although I always figured him to be a Nike kind of guy: via Gearfuse (with a tip o’ the pileus to Dr Tronchin!)
A Couple of Popculch Items
Posted: July 1, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Bleacher Report, Lebron James, Twitter
I was planning on taking the ol’ blogging machine outside and blogging al fresco, but it appears we’re going to get a big dump of rain … oh well, all I was going to blog (for the next hour or so) were a couple of popculch type things. The first comes from the Bleacher Report, [...]
Temple and Bridge from Near Apamea
Posted: July 1, 2010 by rogueclassicist in UncategorizedTags: Apamea, Archaeology, Hellenistic, Roman Empire, Syria
This one from Sify/ANI is annoyingly lacking in details … I can’t find a name for al-Bahred in ancient times, but it seems to be the right distance away from Apamea to be a mansio at least …: Archaeologists have unearthed an archaeological temple dating back to the Hellenistic and Roman eras. They have also [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas quinctilias
Posted: June 29, 2010 by rogueclassicist in Uncategorizedante diem iii kalendas quinctilias 179 B.C. (?) — dedication of a Temple of Hercules and the Muses (and associated rites thereafter) 29 B.C. — restoration of the Temple of Quirinus
