Breviaria Miscellaneaque

I’m hoping to get the last of the backlog out of my system over the course of the day … here’s a pile of items which, for various reasons, I didn’t really get a chance to get to (again, some might be a bit old):

How’s your Classical education?:

Do you need a better classical education? Take our quiz…. (Times)

If you didn’t do well:

Is the ancient world all Greek (or Latin) to you? Read on… (Yorkshire Post)

I can’t remember if I mentioned this report about Rome opening up assorted underground sites like the Ludus Magnus to the public, so just in case:

Rome opens up underground wonders of the ancient world to tourists (Times)

Underground Rome sites open to visitors (Stuff)

Similarly, I’m not sure whether I mentioned the vandalism attack on the Ara Pacis museum a while ago:

Vandals Attack Roman Museum (NYT)

Vandals Deface Controversial Rome Museum, AP Reports (Bloomberg)

An update of sorts on the Oded Golan trial:

Oded Golan: I never faked any antiquity (JPost)

On the Roman contribution to comedy:

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for your headliner… Cicero (Chortle)

In case you missed the Astronomy Picture of the Day of the sun rising over the Parthenon … Robert Barron has a nice list of Classically-themed APODs at his blog …

Mary Beard stepped outside her blog to compare Silvio Berlusconi to a well-known emperor:

If the emperor has no clothes, history will expose him (Times)

Tom Holland had an interesting review of the influence of Arthur Evans’ excavations on other branches of the humanities:

Modernist minotaurs (Times)

Plenty of Romans in a top ten list of extravagant emperors:

The 10 most extravagant emperors (Times)

Rather less Classcon in a top ten list of literary shipwrecks:

Ten of the best shipwrecks (Guardian)

… and since we’re doing Top Tens, we should alert folks to Mary Beard’s recent:

10 Latin quotes for the underground (Times)

I’m still trying to figure out what, exactly, Examiner.com is (an open group blog masquerading as a newspaper?) but it turns up almost daily in my scans with articles of various interest … here’s a handful of recent ones: