September 22, 2012
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From the Telegraph: The Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the building of the wall in AD 122, and until the 1960s it was generally assumed that it was a defensive structure from which legionaries would fight off invaders from the north. Hadrian’s biographer wrote that it was built to separate the barbarians from the Romans. Dobson…
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posted with permission: Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy. By Eleni Kechagia. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 359. £70.00/$135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959723-9. Reviewed by Jan Opsomer, University of Leuven Plutarch’s polemical text against the Epicurean Colotes is a precious source for fragments and testimonies…
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The Telegraph has a handy little list of ‘Pompeii sightings’ in assorted pop culture venues: Pompeii in popular culture (Telegraph) … typo in the headline is somewhat cold, perhaps …
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Elton Barker posted this item of interest on the Classicists list: Colleagues may be interested to learn of a new online resource that is now available and free to use. Some of you may have been aware of the ongoing efforts in the Digital Classics community to use digital technology to visualise and help understanding…
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Seen on the Classicists list: "HIP SUBLIME: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition" University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA November 16th and 17th 2012 An interdisciplinary conference on the intersections between avant-garde practice and the cultural legacies of ancient Greece and Rome in Post-war America; hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Classical Studies,…
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