March 2010
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): Laughter in the Library: a colloquium on Old Comedy for Penny Bulloch Ioannou Classics Centre, Oxford Saturday 5th June 2010 10.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. To mark the retirement of Penny Bulloch and her contribution as Fellow…
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From the Tripod: Trinity College’s Classics Department is in danger of being dissolved and replaced as an interdisciplinary program. This process involves numerous steps, the first of which is the notification of Department Chair and Associate Professor of Classics Dr. Martha Risser by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC). The EPC consists of various members of…
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Image via Wikipedia From the Local: Twenty students from the University of Regensburg plan to live and train in the style of Roman gladiators from 79 AD and stage a battle for scientific research this summer, the project’s Bavarian organisers said on Monday. “We know hardly anything about the gladiators,” historian Josef Löffl said. “There…
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The incipit of an item at the BBC: A series of finds in 1980s completely changed the perception of the effect the Romans had on Guernsey. Tanya Walls, La Société Guernesiaise archaeology secretary, said before the finds it had been thought they had little influence. However, when evidence of settlements, trade and industry came to…
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Most of a very interesting item from the Independent: A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as…
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