November 26, 2011
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From an NBC interview with playwright Tom Jacobson: Q. What projects are you currently working on? A. I’m working on a trilogy about Pompeii: Three full length plays about a Roman family putting on a fake Greek play in their private theater on the day that the Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. I was inspired by…
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Interesting item from the BBC: An overgrown site on Alderney has been found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in the world. Island tradition had long suggested the site, known as the Nunnery, dated back to Roman times, although excavations since the 1930s had always proved inconclusive. A joint project between Guernsey…
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Haven’t seen anything about this except at Popular Archaeology: Temple of Aphrodite to be Buried by Urban Progress? … there’s a link to a website devoted to preserving the monument (in Thessaloniki/Thermaikos), but curiously there is no online petition or the like. Not sure whether we’re getting the complete story on this one …
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We’re really wandering down a path now … since we’re playing with Classical Tradition type things, another Iliad-related thing I’ve had sitting on the backburner is a metal retelling of the story by Warlord (it’s and 80s metal band, but sounds very 70s):
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Speaking of Iliad translations (as Lorelei King and I were just doing on Twitter) reminded me that I don’t think I’ve ever posted this rap(pish) version of the Iliad:
rogue classicism 