May 2010
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Kudos accrues to Ian Shuttleworth in the Financial Times! The Old Market is not as accommodating a theatre space as it appears: playing on three sides like this puts the performers some distance away from the main bank of audience. However, director Jo McInnes counteracts this by smart use of vomitorium aisles for entrances, exits…
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Not sure why these weren’t showing up before, but it is clear the OUP blog’s Cleopatra Podcast, which we mentioned last week, has had two further installments (as you recall, these are connected to Duane Roller’s recent biography of the queen) … all three installments are available at: Cleopatra Podcast: OUPblog.
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Some problems in translation, alas: These works have recovered more than twenty burials, mostly groups, which are dated the first century BC and show clear Iberian cremation rites. Iberian necropolis dated 100 BC in Arjona (Jaén) Heavy rain in Arjona uncovers the further remains The accidental finding in Arjona (Jaén) was discovered in the remains…
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Italian police in the Sicilian capital Palermo have seized ancient artefacts after several raids which uncovered an alleged operation that used the Internet for selling the finds. Since the beginning of the year Operation Archeweb has found 69 suspicious pieces in the hands of alleged traffickers. Police specialising in protecting cultural patrimony have seized small…
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Interesting job/life: Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself “the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book.” Of course, that book is “the” Book, the Bible.…
rogue classicism 