February 2010

  • Lengthy article by Richard Miles in History Today: Carthage: The Lost Mediterranean Civilisation | History Today.

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): 10th ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2010: ‘REVELRY, RHYTHM AND BLUES’ CALL FOR PAPERS We are happy to announce the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Symposium organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama,…

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  • Mice Casts from Pompeii!?

    Tim Parkin posted (on Facebook) this potentially very interesting snippet of a documentary featuring casts of mice who were caught at Pompeii: … but I’m trying to figure out how genuine this is … if you follow the link at the end, it takes you to an artist’s site which has these same mice in…

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  • Today’s Bust in Italy

    Operazione ‘Kore’, as it’s been dubbed, has recovered a number of votive figures of the goddess (among other things) in Caltanissetta.  Here’s the beginning of a list of same from Corriere di Gela: La Squadra Mobile della Questura di Caltanissetta, nell’ambito di mirate indagini su un vasto traffico di reperti archeologici, iniziate su input del…

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  • Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): SACE Ancient Worlds Summer School 2010: 26th July – 6th August Summer Schools Programme The School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) is pleased to announce its Summer School Programme for 2010. This year, summer school courses…

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