August 2014
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When last we heard about Stephen Fine and his crack teams of Yeshiva University students, they were detecting the colour of the Temple Menorah on the Arch of Titus (The Golden Menorah on the Arch of Titus). Now the WSJ reports on their activities checking into the semi-frequent claims that the Temple Menorah, after the…
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From the Telegraph … skipping a bit: Now, to mark the two millennia since his death in 14AD, a successful exhibition has been staged in Rome and Paris, while on Rome’s Palatine Hill newly restored rooms at Augustus’ house and elaborate frescoes in a dining area will go on display for the first time. But…
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The latest: 2014.08.29: Sten Ebbesen, John Marenbon, Paul Thom, Aristotle’s Categories in the Byzantine, Arabic and Latin Traditions. Scientia Danica: Series H, Humanistica 8, vol. 5. 2014.08.28: Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf, Ancient Libraries. 2014.08.27: Mika Kajava, Studies in Ancient Oracles and Divination. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 40. 2014.08.26: Angelos Chaniotis, Pierre Ducrey, Unveiling…
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ante diem xv kalendas septembres 29 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Divus Julius (and associated rites thereafter) 2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Florus and Laurus in Illyria 328 A.D. — death of Helena, mother of Constantine
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I’ve got a pile of these interviews to catch up on (18 or so! I’ll be spacing them out over the next week or so). In this one Constanze Güthenke talks about German Classical scholarship and reception over the past couple centuries or so … here’s the official blurb: CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni caught up with…
rogue classicism 