August 2012
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Uncertain dreams: The Matter of Troy.
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Laudator Temporis Acti: Come Ye to the Waters.
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Ancient and Modern Olympics: Disabled athletes in the ancient world?.
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Roger Pearse: The fire of Cautopates.
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LiveScience’s Owen Jarus has put a good one out there … from the latest volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it’s a recently-translated poem all about Nero and Poppaea Sabina, and the latter’s ‘deification’ … here are some excerpts from Jarus’ piece: A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of…