August 2011
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Several folks have sent this one in and/or mentioned it on Twitter and/or Facebook (tip o’ the pileus to too many to mention) … interesting essay in Slate about the course which is heir to Father Foster’s efforts … here’s the first bit: At the beginning of the last century, A.E. Housman, that cantankerous giant…
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This kept popping up on Facebook and Twitter the other day … here’s a bit of a tease to get you to check the item out at History Today … nice oppotunity to connect the ancient world with modern with a somewhat different spin than we usually get in those US-as-Rome pieces: As Libya collapsed…
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I have a backlog of things from Caerleon to post … we will get to them. For now, though, this seems to be the most important find … from the Guardian: Archaeologists have discovered only the second known port of Roman Britain, where soldiers would have arrived in numbers from the Mediterranean to aid in…
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Items that helped me fight antihistamine dozery yesterday: Is the historical novel the ultimate novel? – Emma Darwin August 21, 2011 Emma Darwin Pithekoussai: Oldest Greek Colony in the West August 22, 2011 History of the Ancient World Round-Up: August 22 August 22, 2011 (Laura Gibbs) Gastrophobia – Unbearable. August 22, 2011 Did Marion True…
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ante diem x kalendas septembres Vulcanalia — a festival in honour of Vulcan, which included games in the Circus Maximus rites in honour of Maia and the Nymphs rites in honour of Ops Opifera and Hora Quirini 93 A.D. — death of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, and subject of the latter’s…
rogue classicism 