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Also Seen: Greek Fire and Damascus Steel
Interesting item at io9 this week: Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again
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Fringe: A Better Human Being (Hubris and Fidelity in the Multiverse)
Yesterday’s episode of Fringe, “A Better Human Being,” explored a couple of interesting religious and philosophical themes related to modern science and scientific possibilities.The more obvious of the...
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"Iberos en el Bajo Aragón": exposición itinerante para escolares
Por la web de los Íberos del Bajo Aragón se crea una exposición itinerante para escolares bajo el título de Íberos en el Bajo Aragón; os pasamos la información de dicha web: "El próximo lunes se podrá...
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Blogosphere ~ Why the Iliad?
languagehat.com: WHY THE ILIAD?. [on the availability of the Iliad in assorted editions in assorted nations]
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Blogosphere ~ Red-Figure Kraters in the Age of Perikles
TeeGee: Opera Nobilia et al. Red-Figure Kraters in the Age of Perikles.
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Blogosphere ~ The Catalogue of Ships
The Homer Multitext: The Catalogue of Ships. [Pondering the question of why the Catalogue is so controversial ... good stuff]
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Blogosphere ~ Latrines at the Agora in Athens
Bread and Circuses: Latrines at the Agora in Athens.
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A teaser on the Kalash
Razib has a post on Kalash on the human tree. As it happens, I am in the middle of a ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE analysis of a broad dataset designed to explore certain mysteries that have often come...
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Etruskerna 3D – Etruria 3D
Detta inlägg följer på Svenska Today I visited the exhibit Etruria 3D at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. I’m sorry to say this exhibit wasn’t all that good. The...
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Memorizing and Forgetting Facts
This cartoon illustrates well one of the reasons why I’ve moved away from exams that focus on the recall of facts of the sort that can be memorized for a test and then forgotten.HT A Feather Adrift
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Theft at Olympia
As most readers of rogueclassicism are probably aware, yesterday the press, academic discussion lists, and social media were ablaze with news of a theft at one of the the museums at Olympia. What...
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Olympia theft: "it will be really difficult to get rid of them"
© David Gill Some of the images of objects stolen from one of the museums in Olympia can now be seen in a video on (UK) Channel 4's website. Cambridge researcher Christos Tsirogiannis makes the...
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Blogosphere ~ A Merchant’s Prayer to Mercury
Laudator Temporis Acti: A Merchant’s Prayer to Mercury.
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Blogosphere ~ Did Ancient Romans Love Their Children? Infanticide in Ancient...
History of the Ancient World: Did Ancient Romans Love Their Children? Infanticide in Ancient Rome. [definitely have to put this thesis on the 'to read' list ... I had a section in my...
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Blogosphere ~ Cleopatra dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963
Pop Classics: Cleopatra dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963.
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Blogosphere ~ Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement
History of the Ancient World: Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement. [interesting article by Ian Worthington]
View ArticleThe Theft At Olympia
The recent armed robbery at the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games has been in the news and discussed on various email lists. Rogueclassicist has a very good summary with lots of links. While...
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Blogosphere ~ Rites of Passage and their Role in the Socialization of the...
History of the Ancient World: Rites of Passage and their Role in the Socialization of the Spartan Youth.
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