He has a wife, you know: What have the Etruscans ever done for us?.
Month: October 2012
Blogosphere ~ The Complete Guide to Herodotus of Halicarnassus
ABZU Bibliography update: The Complete Guide to Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Podcast: De Re Publica Romana et Re Publica Americana: Some Surprising Discoveries
This looks interesting:
Dr. Dwight Castro, Westminster professor of classics, presented “De Re Publica Romana et Re Publica Americana: Some Surprising Discoveries” at the Faires Faculty Forum on Oct. 10.
The Founders of the American Republic looked to the ancient Roman Republic as an inspiration, and sometimes as a model, when designing and “selling” the form of government embodied in the U.S. Constitution. In developing a document of Latin terminology for a recent presentation at “Septimana Californiana” (“California Week”), Castro discovered how the realities of modern American government necessitated an exploration of periods of Roman history, other than just the Republic, in order to describe the three branches of the U.S. government.
- via: Classics professor reveals discoveries about the foundations of the U.S based on the Roman Republic
… links to the podcast in various forms at the original article …
Scary WTF Incipits
There have been a couple this week … check this thing out from the Telegraph:
Patrick White is one of the great novelists of the 20th century, on a par with his fellow Nobel laureates William Faulkner, Halldór Laxness and Thomas Mann; and yet, 100 years after his birth, his name seems temporarily and inexplicably lost in the immense desert spaces to which he introduced a new generation of readers, buried like one of those Roman legions of Herodotus, beneath the glare and flies and red Australian sand. […]
… and one with no Classical content, but which will keep you busy for hours as you try to parse it (and my head is still shaking after John McMahon sent it to me a couple days ago):
In an assessment of the nasal floor configurations of the available and sufficiently intact, if still incomplete, paleoanthropologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Washington University and University of Missouri, found that archaic Homo maxillae from eastern Eurasia seem to have a prevalence of the bi-level pattern similar to that seen in the western Eurasian Neandertals, while early modern humans from eastern Eurasia mostly exhibit the level floor pattern predominant among early and recent modern human populations, indicating that bi-level nasal floors were common among Pleistocene archaic humans, and a high frequency of them is not distinctive of the Neandertals as thought before. Researchers reported online 21 September 2012 in the scientific journal of Anthropological Science. […]
… as I commented on Facebook, I hope to meet a sufficiently intact, if still incomplete paleoanthropologist some day …
Potential Roman Shipwreck Site from Portimao
The incipit of a piece from Portugal News:
Archaeologist Cristóvão Fonseca explained that the fieldwork, which is due to last two weeks, will comprise an initial phase of visual prospection and data recording with photographs and drawings, and the excavation of artefacts that may be found on the surface.
It is believed one of the locations identified for prospection may have been the site of a shipwreck during Roman times, due to the discovery of a large concentration of ceramic vases called amphora, some still intact.
Despite this, the theory may only be confirmed with excavations, which depending on the results obtained during the next two weeks could take place next year. […]
… it goes on to mention other finds from other periods …and includes a photo of things they’ve brought up, none of which really looks Roman.
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