January 2011
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Over the holidays I stumbled — archaeologist-like — and wrecked my knee; but other than that, I did manage to find The Classicist Blog (about which I was curiously unaware), which is associated with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. It has some interesting items within our purview every now and then, the…
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Image via Wikipedia Wow … a zillion different versions of this one which looks at Kathleen Lynch’s work which she is presenting in a few days at the AIA shindig. Here’s the version from Science Daily: How commonly used items — like wine drinking cups — change through time can tell us a lot about…
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Image via Wikipedia Amicus noster Adrian Murdoch is celebrating the quinquennium of his Bread and Circuses blog by inaugurating a series of brief podcasts on Roman emperors. The first one is (obviously) about Augustus and serves as a nice intro to that guy’s principate: Emperors of Rome: Augustus According to Adrian, these will be posted…
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Image via Wikipedia pridie nonas januarias ludi compitales — day two of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up…
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Image via Wikipedia Interesting item from the Independent: An isolated community near the Black Sea coast in a remote part of north-eastern Turkey has been found to speak a Greek dialect that is remarkably close to the extinct language of ancient Greece. As few as 5,000 people speak the dialect but linguists believe that it…
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