Day: February 22, 2014

Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog | Plato Meets the Meteorite: Solon, Egypt and Atlantis

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Plato Meets the Meteorite: Solon, Egypt and Atlantis
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Roman Necropolis Near Venice

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I’ll keep my eye open for some more details on this one … from ANSA:

The largest, best-preserved ancient Roman funerary complex found in Italy since the 19th century has been discovered at an archeological dig 70 km northeast of Venice, researchers announced Friday.

An imposing monument from the third century AD was located outside the ancient walls of what was once the Roman colony of Iulia Concordia, now in the town of Concordia Sagittaria.

The site was likened to a “little, flood-plain Pompeii” in a guided tour at the restoration site in Gruaro, Veneto. Just as Pompeii was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a natural disaster wiped out and preserved sarcophagi in Iulia Concordia.

Floods swept detritus and sediment across the area in the fifth century AD, rendering the ancient structures inaccessible and invisible for 1500 years.

The complex includes a podium nearly two metres tall and six metres long with the remains of two elegant sarcophagi on top, two others nearby, and the base of a third.

The remains of a necropolis from the the late first century B.C. was also found.

The excavation is financed by the Region of Veneto with European Union funds under the direction of the Veneto Superintendency for Archeological Heritage.

via: ‘Little Pompeii’ found 70 km northeast of Venice

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Augustus through the Ages: receptions, readings and appropriations of the historical figure of the first Roman emperor (international conference, Brussels, November 6-7, 2014)

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Augustus through the Ages: receptions, readings and appropriations of the historical figure of the first Roman emperor

Augusti Manes volitant per auras.

In 2014, many academic institutions and museums will celebrate the bi-millennial of the death of Augustus with colloquiums, exhibitions and publications. The life, the political ingenuity, and the era of the founder of the Roman Empire have not been honoured or discussed in this manner since 1937-1938, when an exhibition, the Mostra augustea della Romanità, at the instigation of the Fascist regime, celebrated the two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Emperor. Yet the outcome of the re-examinations in 2014 will not be complete if emphasis is not put on the enduring fame and fortune he experienced in the West, for this renowned figure created an empire which united, for the first time, the Mediterranean with the regions north of the Alps. The importance of this personage throughout our recorded cultural history makes a multidisciplinary approach essential. It is therefore, as diverse field and period specialists, that we wish to invite our Belgian and foreign university colleagues to bring together their skills and knowledge – in the distinct fields of history, cultural history, literature, art history, semiotics, etc. – to retrace the multiple interpretations and appropriations of Augustus from his death to the present days.

A colloquium will take place in Brussels, November 6-7th, 2014 where historians, philologists, archaeologists and art historians of different periods are invited to present papers on various topics in accordance with the following guidelines:

· Receptions of Augustan politics and ideology and their appropriations

· Religious appropriations

· Representations of Augustus in mixed media (e.g. comics, television series)

· Augustus in literature and the arts, or in movies and on the Web

· Memory of Augustus as the “urban designer” who transformed Rome into a city of marble

The presentations, which will last for 30 minutes, can be made in French, English, Italian or German. Paper proposals (title and abstract with a maximum of 500 words) must be submitted to marco.cavalieri AT uclouvain.be by Friday February 28, 2014 at the latest.

Organizing Committee:

Pierre Assenmaker (F.R.S.-FNRS/UCLouvain)

Mattia Cavagna (UCLouvain)

Marco Cavalieri (UCLouvain/Università degli Studi di Firenze, SSBA)

David Engels (ULB, Bruxelles)

Costantino Maeder (UCLouvain)