April 2013
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The incipit of an item in the Bath Chronicle: Engineers have uncovered part of what could be a Roman wall while carrying out emergency sewer repairs in Bath city centre. Wessex Water was carrying out work to repair a sewer in Burton Street last week when a large Bath stone block was discovered, nearly three…
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An interesting project call seen on the Classicists list: CLASSICISTS WANTED for practice-based study of ancient dance University of Oxford We are looking for individuals with a background in classics or ancient history to participate in a research project involving the reconstruction of Roman tragic pantomime. We are giving professional dancers 3 hours to create a dance…
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From Rome to the Wild West – An Interview with Caroline Lawrence via Vicky Thinks
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From the Telegraph: Peter Walsh, who has died aged 89, was a classicist and helped to change the way scholars look at some of the great Latin texts. He made his name in 1961 with Livy: His historical aims and methods, a book which rescued the reputation of the great Roman historian from the academic…
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An excerpt in medias res from Live Science (with one of those annoying, all-too-general headlines): […] Tiryns was one of the great Mycenaean cities. Atop a limestone hill, the city-state’s king built a palace with walls so thick they were called Cyclopean, because only the one-eyed monster could have carried the massive limestone blocks. The…
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