April 2009
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As part of the Panegyrici Latini Project, the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews are delighted to announce a one-day conference, to be held in the School of Classics, Swallowgate, St Andrews on Saturday 16th May 2009. “Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity”…
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Call for Proposals: Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop Georgetown University, October 15–17, 2009 Proposals are solicited for participation in the fifth annual Classical Commentary Writers’ Workshop, to be held at Georgetown University on October 15–17, 2009. The 2009 workshop will be devoted to Greek texts. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2009. The workshop will…
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I was wondering if there’d be a claim trying to connect Easter eggs to the Romans … the closest seems to be a piece on the mystery of Easter eggs which mentions (but doesn’t make a specific connection): pregnant young Roman women carried an egg on their persons to foretell the sex of their unborn…
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This one’s interesting to me because it touches on something I’ve wondered about for years … the assumption that the Praetorium mentioned in the Gospels as the location of Pilate’s trial of Jesus (and, therefore, the starting point for the via Dolorosa) is to be identified with the Antonia Fortress. In a forthcoming study called…
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While tracking down a claim, I came across a very interesting article from the BDA Dental Museum on various methods used by Romans to keep their teeth clean … there are (non-specific) references to ancient sources which could be tracked down …
rogue classicism 