March 7, 2012
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Madeline Miller: Myth of the Week: Penthesilea.
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Madeline Miller: Myth of the Week: Pegasus and Bellerophon.
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Interesting item making the rounds from Tel Aviv University: History is often shaped by the stories of kings and religious and military leaders, and much of what we know about the past derives from official sources like military records and governmental decrees. Now an international project is gaining invaluable insights into the history of ancient…
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Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS New Perspectives on locatio conductio in Roman law 6 – 8 June 2012, Edinburgh In the nearly 100 years since the publication of Emilio Costa’s La locazione di cose nel diritto romano (1915), the first monograph of the twentieth-century on letting and hiring in Roman law, modern…
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Seen on the Classicists list: CFP: International Workshop „Roman Sarcophagi“ October 10-13, 2012, Graz (Austria) The Department of Archaeology & Numismatics of the Universalmnuseum Joanneum and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Graz will host a conference on Roman sarcophagi in October 2012. In addition to analytical and synthetic contributions the topics are…