graffiti – rogue classicism

July 25, 2013

Greek Graffiti from Izmir

Yet another one from Hurriyet which leaves us asking for more: A rich Greek graffiti collection has been found in the İzmir agora during excavation work in the area. The graffiti shows daily life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The graffiti is estimated to date back to the 2nd and 4th centuries A.D. Experts…

Social Networks at Pompeii?

Another one from the AIA shindig/LiveScience/Stephanie Pappas … since most of our readers will be aware of Pompeii political graffiti, we’ll jump to the end of this one about the work of Eeva-Maria Viitanen from the University of Helsinki: […] The first find was that politicians wanted an audience. The campaign ads were almost invariably…

Erotic Fresco (and Graffiti) From the Colosseum

Kind of surprised this isn’t getting more coverage … via AFP: Italian archaeologists have found brightly coloured fragments of frescoes depicting heroic and erotic scenes inside a corridor of the Colosseum in Rome, along with samples of ancient graffiti. “We have found traces of decorations in blue, red and green,” Rossella Rea, director of the…