November 2010
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The inicipit of a piece from the East Bay Express: UC Berkeley classics professor Kim Shelton and her largely student crew are back from a summer spent excavating, researching, and conserving at Nemea, Greece. Ever since the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology was founded within UCB’s Classics department six years ago, UCB has maintained the…
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As presented by the two Vickies … a.k.a. ‘Team Viper’: Cleopatra: deathless art? Or postmortem porn? «. [we’ve just added Vicki Leon’s blog to our blogroll as well …]
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As often, of late, I’m a bit behind the news cycle, and one of the stories of the past week dealt with the misidenfication of remains of a ‘mysterious breed of horse’ at Pompeii which turned out to be a donkey. Here’s the coverage from Cambridge News: An academic at Cambridge University has been left…
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A brief item from Standart which is kind of interesting from a naming-of-potential-markets point of view: In Bulgaria there are 49,800 private collections of historical value which are not registered, Nikolay Solarov – prosecutor from the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office announced at a seminar on prevention of traffic of cultural riches. Nikolay Solarov explained that…
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We’re used to seeing various personages in American culture compared to ancient Roman types … here’s a somewhat different one making the rounds (it appears) of the Australian press, FWIW and inter alia: The late Professor Norberto Bobbio, one of Italy’s greatest postwar political thinkers, authors and legal philosophers, once described Silvio Berlusconi as the…
rogue classicism 