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Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence
A friend alerted me to today's IO9 post, "The First Artificial Sweetener Poisoned Lots of Romans." It's a (very) brief look at some of the uses of lead (Pb) in the Roman world, including the hoary...
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The Lambaesis Inscription
Hadrian (Museo Arqueológico, Sevilla) In the early Summer of 128, the Roman emperor Hadrian visited Lambaesis, the base of the Third Augustan Legion. As it happens, a substantial part of the speeches...
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P. Buzi & A. Camplani (eds.), Christianity in Egypt (Festschrift T. Orlandi)
P. Buzi & A. Camplani (eds.), Christianity in Egypt: Literary Production and Intellectual Trends in Late Antiquity. Studies in honor of Tito Orlandi, Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 125,...
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Blogosphere ~ Opinions of ancient philosophers
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Opinions of ancient philosophers.
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Blogosphere ~ APA Blog : Search for Editor of TAPA
American Philological Association: APA Blog : Search for Editor of TAPA.
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Blogosphere ~ Classics on TV and Visualising Reading
res gerendae: Classics on TV and Visualising Reading.
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Blogosphere ~ The Lambaesis Inscription
New at LacusCurtius & Livius: The Lambaesis Inscription.
View ArticleAPA Blog : 2012 Summer Courses at the University of Texas at Austin
Each summer the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin offers its renowned course in Summer Intensive Greek: the equivalent of three semesters of Greek in ten weeks. The...
View ArticleOn Mesopotamian Barley Beer
EurekAlert's January 17th press release The fermented cereal beverage of the Sumerians may not have been beer describes the modern experiments to recreate the ancient barley and emmer wheat beverage...
View ArticleTwo Thoughts On The Commedia
I mentioned the other day that Shirley and I were rereading Dante’s Divine Comedy while we listened to a lecture series on it. The relationship between reader and literature is extremely complex....
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Open Access Journal: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
[First posted in AWOL 29 October 2009. Updated 22 January 2012]Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate é uma nova revista que pretende estar aberta, em visão alargada, a...
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Seeing beneath Stonehenge revealed
Stonehenge by Adam Stanford of Aerial Cam. http://www.aerial-cam.co.uk/Two new 21st century inventions are helping us to understand and visit the wonders of Stonehenge from the comfort of our own...
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Life and death in 17th century London
A new exhibition at the Royal Society in London features some of the most remarkable treasures from 350 years of book collecting, including a rare volume that looks at causes of death in 17th century...
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Four Passive Imperial Goddesses
Ulpia Marciana In the early second century CE, the emperors Trajan (r. 98-117) and Hadrian (r. 117-138) made four extraordinary deifications of their imperial women. Trajan started the ball rolling by...
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"Alabama Needs Our Help"
.Steve, Forrest and Spencer Phillips (Southern Skin Diver Supply of Birmingham, Alabama) ask US metal detectorists to support an amendment they have proposed to Alabama's archaeological resource...
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Happy year of the Dragon!
Today marks the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, celebrated by many Chinese communities living in Southeast Asia and also known as Tet in Vietnam. It is now the year of the Dragon! Dragon...
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Discussions of Evolution and Creationism Around the Blogosphere
Here are some links to discussions around the blogosphere which connect with this blog in some way, shape or form.First, let me link to a post by Sam, a former student of mine, whose blog post “Redoing...
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Open Access Journal: The Chronicles
The ChroniclesPublisher: [Cairo] : American University in Cairo, [2005]-"The Chronicles is the periodic publication of the Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC) of The American...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Coffin Fellowship Deadline Extended
February 15, 2012, is the extended deadline for submission of applications for the David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for study and travel in classical lands of the American Philological...
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