October 2009
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One of the benefits — if there are any — of falling behind in one’s usual blogging schedule is that one tends to get a lot more coverage and the followups of stories ‘all at once’, as it were. A case in point is this story from a couple of weeks ago about a smashed…
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ante diem xvii kalendas novembres 1861 — birth of J.B. Bury, author of History of the Later Roman Empire, among other ‘standard’ texts
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Seen on various lists: The University of Birmingham would like to invite papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for Day One of a colloquium, taking place from the 5th to the 6th of July 2010 on: ‘Cultural Memory and Religion in the Ancient City’ The possibilities offered by Cultural Memory as a methodological…
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idus octobres festival of Jupiter — all ides were sacred to Jupiter Rite of the ‘October Horse’ — one of the many rituals which makes the study of Roman religion so fascinating. On this day a race between two-horse chariots would be held in the Campus Martius, and the right hand horse of the victorious…
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pridie idus octobres rites in honour of the Penates Dei — the Penates Dei were originally the penates who watched over the storehouse of the king (when Rome had such, obviously); at some point, the Penates Dei came to be identified with Castor and Pollux, but they still had a temple under their own name…
rogue classicism 