November 2010
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Can Computerised Terrain Analysis Find Boudica’s Last Battlefield? We have few details of the native response to the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43, but one episode entered folklore: the rebellion of an East Anglian queen. Steve Kaye thinks he knows how to narrow down the search for the elusive site of Boudica’s last stand.…
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Carolyn Dewald talks at Columbia on (full title) “Ancient Greeks Up Close & Personal: Politics, Sex and Gender, Religion” …
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Plenty of versions of this one filling my box … here’s the one from ANSA: Ancient Rome’s most imposing shrine, the Temple of Venus and Rome, has reopened after a restoration lasting almost 30 years in welcome news for a government under pressure since last weekend’s collapse of Pompeii’s Gladiator School. Facing East and West…
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Image via Wikipedia Yes, my skeptical alarm went off when I read this incipit to a piece in the Daily Mail: For years, centuries even, there have been anecdotes linking diagonal creases across the earlobes to heart disease. One of the earliest ‘cases’ was the Emperor Hadrian, most famous for building a wall to mark…
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pridie idus novembres ludi Plebeii (day 9) – the Jupiterfest continues
rogue classicism 