2012.04.20: Une morale pour les mortels: l'éthique de Platon et d'Aristote....
Review of Anne Merker, Une morale pour les mortels: l'éthique de Platon et d'Aristote. L'Âne d'or. Paris: 2011. Pp. 407. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251420455.
View Article2012.04.21: Theatra et spectacula: les grands monuments des jeux dans...
Review of Michel E. Fuchs, Benoît Dubosson, Theatra et spectacula: les grands monuments des jeux dans l’antiquité. Etudes de Lettres, 288. Lausanne: 2011. Pp. 359. ISBN 9782940331253.
View ArticleMacrobius, Saturnalia 7.16.1
An age-old conundrum. scire ex vobis volo ovumne prius exstiterit an gallina. I want to know from you whether the egg existed first or the chicken. Filed under: Macrobius
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Les Petits Cahiers d'Anatole
Les Petits Cahiers d'Anatole: revue en ligne publiée par le Laboratoire Archéologie et Territoires, UMR 6173ISSN 2105-2921Sous le titre Les petits cahiers d'Anatole, l'unité a ouvert en 2000 une...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: AGER, Bulletin de liaison (association d'étude du monde...
AGER, Bulletin de liaison (association d'étude du monde rural gallo-romain)L'association AGER a été créée au mois de février 1991. Son objectif est de promouvoir la recherche dans le domaine de...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies
[First posted in AWOL 6 November 2009. Updated 14 April 2012]Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan StudiesThe electronic journal Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies is published...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Archeologia e Calcolatori
[First posted in AWOL 8 June 2009. Updated 14 April 2012] Archeologia e CalcolatoriIstituto per l'archeologia etrusco-italica.; Università di Siena. Dipartimento di archeologia e storia delle...
View ArticleFornvännen's Autumn Issue On-Line
Fornvännen is not only a paper quarterly on its 107th year, but also an Open Access journal that appears for free with a 6-month delay. The autumn issue for 2011 has just gone live! All papers have...
View ArticleZakaria Goneim and the discovery of Sekhemkhet's Buried Pyramid
.There is an interesting 2009 Heritage Key article here about Goneim and the unfinished Sekhemkhet Pyramid and also "the sons of Seth" (it is worth remembering that according to some reports Hawass had...
View ArticleKa Nefer Nefer Collecting History (V): Meanwhile...
.The two variant versions of the collecting history most clearly clash in the period when the SLAM-promoted version has it in the possession of Zuzi Jelinek in Geneva. While the documentation supplied...
View ArticleExeter University .... SUCCESS, AMBITION, ENERGY & the Class. Ass.
I am just this minute back from the annual Classical Association conference in Exeter -- where, as I was reminded almost as soon as I walked in, the conference had last been in 1994. I ought to have...
View ArticleA Mithraeum in Iran? — The “Verjuy Mithra Temple”
A post by a headbanger on a crank site drew my attention to this page on the web: Verjuy Mithra Temple, the Oldest Surviving Mithraist Temple in Iran By: Afshin Tavakoli Iran, Daily Newspaper No. 2802,...
View ArticleStandards needed to record the mark of our ancestors
Jackson Njau and marks on Pliocene bone. Image: Courtesy of Indiana University. Jackson Njau, a co-director of field research at palaeontological sites in eastern Africa’s Olduvai Gorge, has written in...
View ArticleMark Twain And Joan of Arc
I haven’t posted on Mark Twain for a while. In a private communication Yelland William called my attention to an April 3rd piece by Daniel Crown on Mark Twain and Joan of Arc in The Awl. Crown’s piece...
View ArticleBaptesimus magnae Regiae Puellae Volguae
Baptesimus magnae Regiae Puellae Volguae Terrarum Russicarum Caevi, qui paganam fuit, feravit Regis Domum Byzantii coniratia, homicidia- dei pagani vendemniabant feravunt res adversas. et matrimonium...
View ArticlePASSERI ET COLUMBAE IN IGNO
PASSERI ET COLUMBAE IN IGNO et dimittebant milli Regiae Puellae Volguae centos passeri et columbae cum igno in arxe. et incedebantur arx fuit. et totus deurabenter fuit in arxe. et moribunt...
View ArticleNew Open Access Issue of Roman Archaeology Group (RAG)...
New Open Access Issue of Roman Archaeology Group (RAG) newsletter http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/roman-archaeology#rag
View ArticleThe first person pronoun in Afro-Asiatic languages
My mind lately has been seduced by some non-linguistic, programming-related material I've been researching busily on the side. However I'm ready to hop back into some lingering issues in my comment box...
View Article“Christians vilified” in Britain — yes or no?
The headline story in the Daily Telegraph today is about a submission by George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, to a court case before the European Court of Human Rights. Britain’s...
View ArticleNew book on the Book of Revelation
A NEW BOOK on the Book of Revelation is profiled in the Jackson Clarion Ledger:Millsaps' professor's new book puts apocalypse in contextPredictions, preparations have little to do with its meaning,...
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