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2012.03.33: Latin Stories: A GCSE Reader
Review of Henry Cullen, Michael Dormandy, John Taylor, Latin Stories: A GCSE Reader. London: 2011. Pp. 190. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997464.
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2012.03.31: Libanius’s Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose...
Review of Craig A. Gibson, Libanius’s Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric. Writings from the Greco-Roman world 27. Atlanta, GA: 2008. Pp. xxix, 572. $64.95 (pb). ISBN...
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Machu Picchu se llamaba Patallaqta
"Se llamaba Patallaqta, que deriva de los vocablos quechuas pata (escalón) y llaqta (pueblo, ciudad, provincia). El nombre venía del sistema de sembradíos utilizado para ganar terreno a las montañas...
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Wall Mile 21
Wall Mile 21 east of Milecastle 22 showing the Vallum Leaving the major highway north of Dere Street behind us, we head gently downhill towards a rather important little stream, one of the tributaries...
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Another Footnote review
FOOTNOTE is reviewed in Vogue: Middle Eastern Follies: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Footnote (John Powers). Excerpt:If you asked me to dream up the unsexiest-sounding movie plot imaginable, I’d be...
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DSS coming to Philadelphia
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION coming in May to Philadelphia is noted by the Philadelphia Inquirer: Franklin Institute exhibit to feature fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls. Those controversial Talpiot...
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New book on Oxyrhynchus Papyri
NEW BOOK (noted by G.W. Schwendner at What's New in Papyrology): L.H. Blumell, Lettered Christians : Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus.
View Articlehominoidea hominindae homininae: alphacaeli: rocks-n-bones: Thanks to someone...
hominoidea hominindae homininae: alphacaeli: rocks-n-bones: Thanks to someone quoting biblical...: alphacaeli: rocks-n-bones: Thanks to someone quoting biblical armageddon from my file sharing… I will...
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The Viking mouse marauder
Viking Ships. Image: Jos van Wunnik (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) House mice (Mus musculus) happily live wherever there are humans. When populations of humans migrate the mice often travel...
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Open Access Journal: DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali,
DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali DigItalia, rivista del digitale nei beni culturali, edita dall'ICCU, intende contribuire a colmare un vuoto nel campo dell’editoria periodica...
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More on library closing
not really a big surprise but this one has a video/interviewhttp://video.ilsole24ore.com/TMNews/2012/20120319_video_18484933/00001599-pompei-chiude-la-biblioteca-non-a-norma-e-a-rischio-amianto.phpand...
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Malter Galleries: Sentence
.Malter Galleries Inc. (Agoura Hills, CA 91376-1710 U.S.A) is a major US auction house of ancient coins and related books and collectibles. Its blurb on V-Coins says: "each year we search for quality...
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Thomas Albert for ACCG Director General
.Tom Albert certainly gets my vote as the new executive director of the ACCG, he has this conspiracy theory stuff sussed. Go, boy, go!I have a different gubn'mint conspiracy theory, if coin collectors...
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Anglo-Saxon Bed Burials
Death has long been referred to as a type of sleep. Death is the long sleep. Death and sleep are brothers according to Greek philosophy. Death is referred to as sleep almost 50 times in the bible....
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Filippo Coarelli à Lille 3
Substructio et tabularium : nouvelles recherches sur les temples du Capitole de Rome. A l’invitation de Javier Arce, Professeur d’archéologie romaine à l’université Lille 3, Filippo Coarelli,...
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Indian mounds in Monroe County, Miss. Looted
In northern Mississippi, 41-year-old Jerome Daniel Young of Nettleton and 36-year-old Marty Dean Kennedy of Wren have been arrested by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department as suspects in an ongoing...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas apriles
ante diem xiii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars (day 20) Quinquatrus (day 2) — second day of a five-day festival (although the name originally came from the fact that it came five days after the Ides,...
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Architecture, Access and Agency in Early Christian Greece
This past week, I’ve been working away on a paper about monumentality in Early Christian architecture in Greece. Most of the work has involved re-familiarizing myself with my dissertation (which is...
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Blogosphere ~ Portrait of a woman in himation in the National Museum of…
Classical Archaeology News: Portrait of a woman in himation in the National Museum of….
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