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Revelations reviewed again
REVELATIONS is reviewed in Salon by Laura Miller: “Revelations”: The Bible’s scariest book. Don't worry, the title in quotation marks is Pagels's book, not John's. Excerpt:Pagels’ sympathies clearly...
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Another One
.One of the artefact collectors' "justifications" is that archaeology is not really a discipline anyone can take very seriously (therefore "why protect the evidence which it and future generations of...
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Archaeological Dig Needed for TV Show
Just in from one of our colleagues atOutline Productions-"I am writing from a productioncompany called Outline Productions and we are currently developing an ideafor the BBC looking at the development...
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Doctor Who: Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
The third major section of the Doctor Who episode “The Trial of a Time Lord,” parts 9-12, are known under the subtitle “Terror of the Vervoids“. It is the Doctor’s chance to respond to the accusations...
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How to goropise effectively
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519-1572) was one of those brilliant erudites of the late Renaissance, a man who was not only a physician but a linguist as well. However, the study of language was still in...
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Reviews from BMCR
2012.03.17: Oliver Taplin, Rosie Wyles, The Pronomos Vase and its Context. 2012.03.16: Robert D. Luginbill, Author of Illusions: Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War....
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R. Goulet (éd.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques Vb
Richard Goulet (éd.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques V b : de Plotina à Rutilius Rufus, Paris, 2012. Éditeur : CNRS éditions1890 pagesISBN : 978-2-271-07399-080 € Le Dictionnaire des...
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Odysseus and Cephalonia Redux
For reasons I can’t quite figure out — other than, perhaps, that the author might be vacationing on Cephalonia — the New York Times is presenting Bittlestone’s theory about Odysseus and Paliki/Ithaca...
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Also Seen: Blame Hermes
… the next time you text something and autocorrect turns it into a job loss opportunity … according to a piece in Science 2.0, inter alia: Hermes most recently invented the digital technology. Internet...
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What to Do With a Classics Degree: Madeline Miller’s Career Path
From a brief item in Boston Globe Magazine: My mom used to read the Greek myths, particularly The Iliad, to me when I was a little girl, and I absolutely loved them. AT BROWN, I MAJORED IN LATIN and...
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A Digital Classics Association
Seen on the Digitalclassicist list: Invitation to Form a Digital Classics Association Dear Colleagues, We write to ask your support in an effort to promote digital classics. We are in the process of...
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Using TreeMix with ADMIXTURE components
An alternative way of using TreeMix is not with original populations, but with allele frequencies derived from ADMIXTURE components. ADMIXTURE outputs a P file of such frequencies, which can be easily...
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Latin Rules!!!
Tip o’ the pileus to Uncle P of Farrago fame for alerting us to Tim de Lisle’s column in Intelligent Life on why Latin is the best language: I studied Latin for 15 years, and this may well be the first...
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Blogosphere ~The Four-Line Ossuary Inscription from Talpiyot Tomb B – an...
The ASOR Blog: The Four-Line Ossuary Inscription from Talpiyot Tomb B – an Interpretation. [we will be revisiting this at some point in the near future]
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Blogosphere ~ Day in the Life of a Kidslit Author
The History Girls: Day in the Life of a Kidslit Author. [Caroline Lawrence]
View ArticleGuidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains, IFA paper 7
Guidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains, IFA paper 7: oldowan: Open access PDF
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Pompeii’s Stabian Baths Reopen
Some good news out of Pompeii for a change … Harry Mount writes in the Telegraph: After three years, the Stabian Baths in Pompeii were reopened to the public this week, allowing access to the women’s...
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Latin Influences … Dr Seuss?
So less than a minute ago I tweeted how the Lorax (gen. Loracis) seems to be screeching to be translated into Latin right now and I had to check to make sure it hadn’t already … what I did come across...
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