March 2009
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Nice to ‘see’ the Parthenon in its original ‘context’:
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StonePages had this at the beginning of the month, but it doesn’t seem to have hit the ‘English press’ until recently. Italian archaeologists working on Cyprus have excavated a triangular-shaped (!) temple at Pyrgos-Mavroraki believed to date to around 2,000 BC (which would make it the oldest temple on Cyprus; the jury’s still out on that…
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An item in Adnkronos about a theme parkish thing called Italia in Miniatura includes this little item at the end: But there is still more to come and soon Italia in Miniatura will be expanding and the expansion of the theme park means double the surface area and the introduction of extraordinary interactive attractions, first…
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Rome is marking Vespasian’s 2000th birthday with a special exhibition and there’s a pile of news coverage too, of course … I like the conclusion to the Independent’s piece: To mark Vespasian’s big day, Rome is breathing new life into the ancient city he did so much to change. Busts, bas-reliefs, weapons, coins and paintings…
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Assorted Latin excerpts and tidbits … The Seattle PI had a nice feature on the resurgence of Latin … including this incipit: The old men in togas. The mindless verbal recitation. The archaic prose. No wonder Latin gets such a bad rap. Latin and ancient Greek once were considered part of a basic education, but…
rogue classicism 