Riapre al pubblico il Tempio di Venere di Pompei. Uno degli angoli meno conosciuti degli scavi archeologici è stato restituito ai visitatori dopo un intervento di riqualificazione. I lavori era diventati urgenti “dalla lunga assenza di manutenzione”, ha detto Maria Emma Pirozzi, direttore dei lavori e tecnico della Soprintendenza. Il tempio si trova nella parte occidentale della collina di Pompei, verso il mare e il fiume Sarno. Fu costruito subito dopo l’80 a.C. per onorare la dea Venere protettrice di Lucius Cornelius Sulla, assimilata alla Venere Fisica protettrice della città, e si trovava su un podio in tufo circondato da portico, abbellito da marmi. Gli ultimi interventi agli scavi hanno anche recuperato il il principale percorso di uscita dall’antica Pompei, che di collega la Piazza del Foro con il centro della Pompei moderna.
Month: February 2010
Akropolis World News
Nuntii Latini mensis Ianuarii 2010 – Radio Bremen
January’s news in Latin:
CONF: Teaching Marxism Workshop 17/2/2010
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Teaching Controversial Topics: Marxist Theory, February 17th 2010,
The Coal Store, Pump House Building, The Peoples’ History Museum, Manchester
The Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology is holding a joint workshop to investigate the teaching of Marxism within those disciplines as part of its ‘Teaching Controversial Topics’ series
The programme is as follows;
Programme
10:30 to 11:00 – Registration
11:00 to 12:00 – Session 1
Richard Alston – Royal Holloway:
“Marxism, Utopianism and Teaching the Roman City”
Michael Sommer – University of Liverpool:
“By the beard of the prophet! Marxian paradigms and ancient (hi)story/ies”
12:00 to 13:00 – Session 2
John Barrett – University of Sheffield
“Teaching Marxism as a question rather than as an answer”
Steve Roskams – University of York
“The Relevance of Marxism to Archaeological Theory and Practice: some York experiences”
13:00 to 14:00 – Lunch & Tour of The People’s Museum, Manchester
14:00 to 15:00 – Session 3
Catherine Feely – University of Manchester
“Theory and Practice: How and Why Should History Students Read Karl Marx”
Helena Sheehan – University of Dublin
“Teaching History of Ideas from a Marxist Perspective”
15:00 to 16:00 – Session 4
Round table discussion on the current challenges to teaching Marxism
There will be opportunities to explore the challenges of teaching Marxism to History, Classics and Archaeology students in the 21st century, as well as sharing experiences and resources.
We very much hope to see you there, as usual, lunch and refreshments will be provided at no charge. To register for this event you can do so electronically at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/publications/ebulletin/news4/ or if you have any queries please send me an email on classicshea AT liverpool.ac.uk.
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