September 2011
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NPR appears to be interviewing Stephen Greenblatt this a.m. about his book, The Swerve … the NPR folks have already set up some items of interest: Lucretius, Man of Modern Mystery (intro; the audio will be here later toay) The Swerve (an excerpt from the book)
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ante diem xiii kalendas octobres ludi Romani (day 15) 86 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Antoninus Pius 208 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Diadumenianus 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Januarius (read about the ritual associated with him in the Catholic Encyclopedia)
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… give or take; there’ll probably be more from today tomorrow (!): explorator 14.22 September 18, 2011 david meadows Porticus Pompeiana: a new perspective on the first public park of ancient Rome September 16, 2011 History of the Ancient World APA Blog : CFP: The Raw and the Rotten: Perversions of Eating in Antiquity…
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Just remembered what was bugging me about that original article … way back in 2004 (and I thought I had blogged this, but perhaps it was in Explorator), a Berlin-based researcher had claimed to have figured out the ‘formula’ for Pompeii red, which included a pile of cinnabar. Discovery News had the story … here’s…
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From Rome Reports:
rogue classicism 