Doctor Who: Blogging the Sixth Doctor
This is a round-up of all my posts about the Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker.The Twin Dilemma Attack of the Cybermen Vengeance on Varos Mark of the Rani The Two Doctors Timelash Revelation of the...
View ArticleNimes Road Trip Anyone?
Here’s a teaser from deep within the press kit: THE GREAT ROMAN GAMES. THE TROJAN WAR The 3rd edition of the Great Roman Games are coming back to the Amphitheatre of Nîmes to relive the “Ludi” games,...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Rosetta: Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and...
[First posted in AWOL 6 November 2009. Updated 12 March 2012]Rosetta: Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of BirminghamISSN 1752-1580The Rosetta journal is aimed at...
View ArticleOpen Access Library: Theological Commons
Theological Commons Princeton Theological Seminary is developing the Theological Commons in partnership with the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly...
View ArticleCFP: Women as Classical Scholars
Seen on the Classicists list: CALL FOR PAPERS: WOMEN AS CLASSICAL SCHOLARS The brilliant Hellenist JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY, the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and only the second to...
View ArticleSteeple Cross Grave Monuments
One of my favorite grave monument types incorporates a plinth, a plain cross, compressed columns at the corners and a massive steeple. So far, I have found three examples of this monument and it's...
View ArticleCONF: Classical Beauty
Seen on the Classicists list (I’m a bit late with this one): Booking closes tomorrow, Wednesday 7th March, for places on the following international conference: Classical Beauty: reflections on ancient...
View ArticleWheelock Related Websites
A useful list which appeared on the Latin Study list (posted with permission): All these websites were designed with Wheelock’s Latin in mind: Absolute MUSTS (IMveryHO) … Wheelock’s FAQ index by...
View ArticleBrady Tomb: Old Cathedral Cemetery
On my way back from laying out the Peschke show at Bryn Mawr College, I stopped at the Old Cathedral Cemetery, next to Our Mother of Sorrows church on 48th & Lancaster Ave. There's a monument there...
View ArticleTemple of Demeter in Taman Followup
Last May we mentioned the discovery of a Temple of Demeter near Taman (in Russia) (Temple of Demeter from Russia) … Greek Reporter today has an update of sorts: The discovery of the Temple of Demeter,...
View ArticleAlcatraz: Spiritual rather than Religious
I am about a week behind on watching Alcatraz, and have not blogged about every episode. But one of the episodes that aired last week, “The Ames Brothers,” bears mention because religion features...
View ArticleUK Government Issues Warning to Art and Antiques Industry over Iraqi Objects
.The Antiques Trade Gazette has a piece on this the warning issued to the art and antiques industry by Her Majesty’s Government concerning the sale of war trophies and cultural property removed from...
View ArticleKhouli and Lewis: The Mummy Case
.Rick St Hilaire has a series of posts following the Windsor Antiquities case in New York. The latest in the series contains some information that might be worth discussing ('Pleadings Filed by Both...
View ArticleEgypt: The "Power" of the Internet - Let us see whether it Gets Things Moving
.Over on the Save El-Hibeh Facebook page its owners announce: We have 1,000 members in less than 48 hours. Please keep spreading the word, distributing the press release and photos, emailing government...
View ArticleAppel à contributions : La dramatique conciliaire, Lille, 15-17 mai 2013
Source : Compitum.La dramatique conciliaire. Coups de théâtre, tactique et sincérité des convictions dans les débats conciliaires de l'Antiquité à Vatican IILes propositionsde communications doivent...
View Article2012.03.21: Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report on the Discoveries...
Review of Carol C. Mattusch, Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: 2011. Pp. ix, 230. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781606060896.
View Article2012.03.20: A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th-4th...
Review of Mark Sundahl, David Mirhady, Ilias Arnaoutoglou, A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th-4th centuries BC). Yearbook of the Research Centre for the History of Greek Law, volume...
View ArticleIn Edinburgh
I'M IN EDINBURGH a good part of today and may not get much of any chance to blog. But meanwhile here are peeks at one new and one future book for you:Larry Hurtado: New Book on Paul’s view of Jesus as...
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