Just Imagine this Happening in the UK: "Join AIA in Opposing Treasure Hunting...
.Just imagine this happening in the UK. Archaeologists learn about a TV programme about treasure hunting and react as archaeologists should to anything which creates a threat to the archaeological...
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Prayer for Philologists
Laudator Temporis Acti: Prayer for Philologists. [Latin teachers might like this one too]
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ The fate of the Ninth: The curious disappearance of Legio VIIII...
History of the Ancient World: The fate of the Ninth: The curious disappearance of Legio VIIII Hispana.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Classical themes in the ‘Fablehaven’ series
Classics Daily: Classical themes in the ‘Fablehaven’ series.
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Corinthian Exceptionalism in Western Civ Textbooks
Corinthian Matters: Corinthian Exceptionalism in Western Civ Textbooks.
View ArticleMarch Biblical Studies Carnival
Here it is – the March 1, 2012, Biblical Studies Carnival covering blogging activity during February. February was a very prolific month in our corner of the blogosphere. I thank all of you who...
View ArticleRock-Rock-Rock (Geologists’ Version of Rock-Paper-Scissors)
HT Caitlin Coberly Facebook
View ArticleCONF: Classical Beauty: a conference on ancient aesthetics at Durham...
Seen on Rome-Arch Classical Beauty: reflections on ancient aesthetics, at Durham University on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012, generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics,...
View ArticleAt last! An unreasonable copyright claim is rejected!
Via the BBC: Football match fixture list copyright claim rejected Football authorities in England and Scotland have had a court claim over football fixtures’ copyright rejected. European judges said...
View ArticleCFP: Olympic Athletes: Ancient and Modern
Seen on the Classicists list: A Conference on Olympic Athletes: Ancient and Modern Date: (Friday-Sunday) 6-8 July 2012 Place: University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. Call for Papers...
View ArticleHelp Shape A Person’s Career with ASOR’s March Fellowship Madness!
Today we are proud to announce the launch of an exciting new campaign to raise money for excavation fellowships! Every year ASOR gives out around 30 Platt and Heritage Fellowships to deserving students...
View ArticleCJ Online Review: O’Sullivan, Walking in Roman Culture
posted with permission: Timothy M. O’Sullivan, Walking in Roman Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 188. Hardback, £55.00/$95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-00096-4....
View ArticleCJ Online Review: Bloomer, School of Rome
posted with permission: W. Martin Bloomer, The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. vii + 199....
View ArticleCJ Online Review: Johnson, Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
Posted with permission: William A. Johnson, Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 227....
View ArticleApproaching Monumentality in the Archaeological Record
Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Conference Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 9:00am - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 5:00pm read more
View ArticlePrayer for Philologists
Erasmus, The Apotheosis of That Incomparable Worthy, John Reuchlin, in The Colloquies of Erasmus, tr. Craig R. Thompson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), pp. 79-86 (at 85): O sacred spirit,...
View ArticleA quick scrape of eBay for Roman Antiquities
I scraped 400 items tagged as Roman antiquities from eBay.ca today. One was going for 1.9$ million; consensus on twitter was that it was a fake. Of the rest, the combined valued was ~ $50 000. Only 188...
View ArticleDespite Strong 2011, Sothebys Stock Slides on Fourth-Quarter Decline
Today's fluctuations, so far, in Sotheby's stockDespite boasting the second-best annual financial results in its history (only outstripped in pre-crash 2007), Sotheby's has been watching its stock...
View ArticleMortuary Practices and Gender Ideology at Cherokee Site
Burials are a result of individual and group identity, social relationships and the construction of social memory. Therefore we can examine social structures of the past by looking at burial forms;...
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