Blogging Pompeii: Ancient speed dating.
[actually an interesting teaching technique]
quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est
Blogging Pompeii: Ancient speed dating.
[actually an interesting teaching technique]
Katakolon Museums: The fire pump of Heron.
[I saw a recreation of this thing (or something similar) on some television show; was it the Reinventors? I seem to recall they made it Chinese …]
History of the Ancient World: Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas.
[’tis the season; might as well have an academic article rather than some journalist’s spin …]
The History of Rome: 161- The Swamps of Ravenna.
[Stilicho and all that …]
Tip o’ the pileus to Chuck Jones for alerting us to this paper (and others) by Andre Lemaire: