December 2010
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Interesting item from the Telegraph: Alexander Hardcastle spent a decade searching for the fabled theatre, which is said to be buried beneath the remains of Akragas, a city established by Greek colonists six centuries before Christ on the southern coast of Sicily. The World Heritage site is best known for the Valley of the Temples,…
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Excerpt from the end of an opEd piece in the Guardian: We could be entering a period of history as in the ancient world where people relied on the oral tradition and eventually wrote down some time later what they thought people might have said or thought. Did Thucydides actually hear Pericles’ funeral oration or…
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As news filters out of an impending ‘official inspection’ of the condition of Pompeii, La Stampa includes an interesting detail: L’ispezione è coperta da stretto riserbo. Nessun contatto con la stampa, anzi l’annuncio, fatto filtrare, che non ci saranno dichiarazioni prima dell’invio della relazione all’Unesco. Alle 14 la Soprintendente ha dato disposizione di bloccare l’accesso…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem iii nonas decembres Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’…
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I’ve never seen this series before (it seems to come from Spain, but it’s in English) … you may or may not enjoy it (the names are fun if nothing else):
rogue classicism 