The folks at Classics confidential interview Dr Vasiliki Zali  about the recent conference she organized entitled Receptions of Herodotus:

Sorry for the lack of action for the past few days … extraordinary hecticity in the week before school is messing with my attention span. This will probably be the first of a couple of posts like this during the course of the day:

• Round-Up: August 26 August 26, 2011  (Laura Gibbs)
• Bioarchaeology of Women’s Health in the Roman Empire August 25, 2011 Kristina Killgrove
• Gaddafi villa pool statues … August 26, 2011 Dorothy King
• Gaddafi’s Roman home — or not? August 26, 2011 Mary Beard
• Bibliographies: Delphi; Samothrace August 26, 2011 classicslibrarian
• A Joy August 26, 2011 Michael Gilleland
• Virtual Brainstorm: Rebrand Classics! August 26, 2011 wopro
• Friday Funnies–Ancient Style! August 26, 2011  (Vicky Alvear Shecter)
• The Cave, re-packaged August 26, 2011 Roger Travis
• Rethinking the Persian Wars August 26, 2011 Dr Jonathan Eaton
• “Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day”: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists August 26, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones
• Who Is Irene’s Greek God? August 25, 2011 (author unknown)
• Bioarchaeology of Women’s Health in the Roman Empire August 25, 2011 Kristina Killgrove
• Latin! August 26, 2011 Leah Hung
• Distractions August 25, 2011 Michael Gilleland

Adrian Murdoch resumes the series with one of those emperors who I’ve never actually studied much for reasons unknown:

• Trebonianus Gallus: Emperors of Rome

From AFP:

A sculpture depicting Zeus and Hera, king and queen of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods, has been permanently removed from the Acropolis in Athens for safe-keeping, a project supervisor said Saturday.

The sculpture — one of the last of the original decorative pieces adorning the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple — will be showcased in the Acropolis Museum in Athens and will be replaced by a copy, architect Vasso Eleftheriou said.

“This is the same method followed for other Parthenon sculptures that have been removed or are to (be removed),” Eleftheriou told state television NET.

The Parthenon metope, or decorative frieze space, removed this week had been defaced by early Christians during the fall of pagan worship in Greece, and further damaged in later centuries by acid rain.

Another five metopes are to removed in the coming months, the Ethnos daily reported this week.

The Parthenon has sustained significant damage in its long history. It was bombarded during a 17th century Venetian siege of Ottoman-held Athens and underwent modifications that turned it first into a church and then a mosque.

In the early 19th century, workers employed by British ambassador Lord Elgin tore down a large number of decorative friezes from the Parthenon.

They were shipped to London and were eventually put on display at the British Museum where they remain to this day.

The British Museum has turned down Greek calls for their return, arguing that the Marbles are part of a world heritage and are more accessible to visitors in London.

Inaugurated in June 2009, the new Acropolis Museum includes a section reserved for the disputed Parthenon Marbles.

It was Greece’s top tourist draw last year, attracting more than 1.3 million visitors, compared to some 990,000 people who visited the Acropolis ancient citadel itself.

• via AFP: Zeus and Hera leave Acropolis for safe-keeping: official.

… raising, of course, the obvious question: why can’t they put some copies of those things in the British Museum up on the Parthenon???