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The Bible and the Patriot Act
Having said that I didn’t find a comic from the Far Left Side as funny as I might have expected, precisely because it didn’t seem to make a useful point, it seems only fair to share a cartoon or two...
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Review of The Last Pagan at UNRV
A good review of The Last Pagan, my biography of Julian the Apostate, at UNRV: Let not the title fool you: the book is much more than a stale rehashing of Julian’s religious polemics against the rising...
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Behind the scenes at the Malaysian National Museum
While the title suggests political interference and cultural bias, the article informs more about the curation of collections at the National Museum of Malaysia, which may now be too big for its size....
View ArticleJesus Poll – The Problem
The Blaze wants to know what readers who answer online polls think about the reality of Jesus’ existence. Here's the question and the answer options. Did Jesus Christ really exist? Absolutely, but he...
View ArticleTROJAN - How Europe set itself up for financial calamity
April 26, 2012 - 2:01 AM - Lecture Dr. Dirk BEZEMER, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
View ArticleThe ‘Apelles from Florence’ - Leonardo da Vinci’s rivalry with the Antique
May 02, 2012 - 1:01 AM - Lecture Professor dr. Michael KWAKKELSTEIN, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut Florence
View ArticleWhich Ancient Greek Was Credited With Inventing Genres of Poetry?
He was thought to have written the first beast fable, preceding Aesop. He was credited with inventing both iambics and elegiac poetry and he is called the father of satire. ...Read Full Post
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Looting Iraq, Looting Mali and Metal Detecting
.Nigel Swift of Heritage Action points out to me "Your piece on Mali happens to correspond exactly with the 9th anniversary of this: 'Six years ago in Iraq…' (09/04/2009)". He adds that: "Needless to...
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Who Needs "Encyclopaedic" Museums?
.The western museums which are eager to either get their hands on or hang on to as much trophy exhibits art as possible like to present themselves as "Universal" collections and "Encyclopaedic"...
View ArticlePresentation of the George Papaioannou Archive
May 16, 2012 - 12:01 AM - Archive Presentation George Antoniou, Stathis Kalyvas, Alexis Malliaris
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2012.04.12: Polybius and Roman Imperialism
Review of Donald Walter Baronowski, Polybius and Roman Imperialism. London: 2011. Pp. xiv, 242. $80.00. ISBN 9780715639429.
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2012.04.11: Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral. Trends in classics -...
Review of Evangelos Karakasis, Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral. Trends in classics - supplementary volumes, 5. Berlin; New York: 2011. Pp. xi, 385. $140.00. ISBN 9783110227062.
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2012.04.13: Caligula: a Biography
Review of Aloys Winterling, Caligula: a Biography. Berkeley: 2011. Pp. vii, 229. $34.95. ISBN 9780520248953.
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Demeter sanctuary?
A PAGAN UNDERWORLD SANCTUARY IN THE JUDEAN HILLS?Israeli cave was seen as porthole to Roman underworld, researchers sayResearchers say Twins Cave may have been site of pagan ritual that lighted the way...
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'There is no new Hebrew without ancient Hebrew'
THE ACADEMY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE is making progress on its Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, but there is still much work to be done.'There is no new Hebrew without ancient...
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Petronius, Satyrica 48
April is the cruellest month. The epigraph to TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent ‘Σίβυλλα, τί θέλεις;’...
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Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform
[First posted in AWOL 3 May 2010. Updates 10 April 2012]Syrian Digital Library of CuneiformThe Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform (SDLC) project represents the collaborative efforts of a Syrian and...
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A Typology of North Dakota Work Camps 2
Yesterday, I began to detail (and work out) and document the results of my first formal research trip to the Western part of the state. This is tied into my North Dakota Oil Boom project. My goal is to...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus apriles
ante diem iv idus apriles ludi Megalesia (day 7) — the Cybelefest continues 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Pompeius and Terence at Carthage 401 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Theodosius II
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Quantifying Yayoi and Jomon ancestry in Japanese
This paper attempts a difficult task: quantifying the relative influence of Yayoi agriculturalists and Jomon hunter gatherers on the population of Japan. While relatives to the early farmers of Japan...
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