January 30, 2010

  • Dean Hammer Roman Spectacle Entertainments and the Technology of Reality Arethusa – Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 63-86 The Johns Hopkins University Press Abstract: Roman spectacle entertainment has attracted substantial scholarly interest because of renewed ways in which politics is seen as culturally enacted. Less attention has been paid to the technologies associated…

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  • The incipit of a recently-dated  piece from AdnKronos which seems to be being picked up by some other papers: An international team of archaeologists claims to have unearthed the 2000-year-old birthplace of the Roman emperor, Vespasian, north of the Italian capital. Vespasian ruled the Roman empire in the first century A.D. and was behind the…

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  • Hadrian, the man who built the wall | Morpeth Herald.

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  • The Roman Swiss Army Knife

    The Fitzwilliam is certainly getting a lot of press attention, and each item revealed seems for interesting than the next. The Daily Mail, ferinstance, is highlighting the exhibition of a Roman precursor to the Swiss Army Knife: The world’s first Swiss Army knife’ has been revealed – made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart. An…

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  • Brief item on the amphitheatre at Caserta and its links to Spartacus: Anfiteatro secondo solo al Colosseo – Corriere del Mezzogiorno.

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