Roman

  • Why Classics?

    Tip o’ the pileus to Rose Williams for alerting us to this piece in USA Today: When college-targeted publications feature articles on topics like the highest-paying college majors or the college majors that are most likely to land you a job, things do not always look too good for people studying the humanities. Humanities departments…

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  • The only version in English that I can find of this (in multiple newspapers) has the story tied to that Swedish phallic thing that was in the news for most folks last week. Here’s what’s important for us: Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman personal care set at Myra-Andriake in Antalya’s district of Demre, Turkey.…

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  • Image via Wikipedia Francesca Tronchin and I have been virtually shaking our heads at an item in the Guardian which includes a headlinish sort of thing: Ecce: The Romans built a 50km aqueduct from Uzès to Nîmes in France with an overall fall of about 17 metres and an average gradient of 1/3000. How did…

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