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Blogosphere ~ Highlights from the Gallo-Roman Museum in Lyon, part 2
Bread and Circuses: Highlights from the Gallo-Roman Museum in Lyon, part 2.
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas novembres
ante diem x kalendas novembres 42 B.C. — the forces of Marcus Antonius defeat those of Cassius and Brutus in the second Battle of Phillipi; Brutus subsequently commited suicide 12 A.D. — the future...
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Classical Words of the Day
parturient (Dictionary.com) Hibernian (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: adverb: itaque , indeclinable => and so, therefore bit.ly/IKAclf #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab— (@LatinVocab) October 23, 2012 femina:...
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Camille Paglia on the Caryatids
The concluding bit of an item in Slate: [...] In his famous manifesto on architecture, the Roman writer Vitruvius propagated an error about the Acropolis caryatids: they depict, he claimed, the...
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Maybe We’re Too Cynical About the Cynics?
Some nice hype from UCincy on Susan Prince’s work with Antisthenes: Are cynics and happiness mutually exclusive? For modern cynics, perhaps. But for the ancient Cynics, not necessarily. Research by the...
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CJ Online Review: Taran and Gutas, Aristotle’s Poetics
posted with permission: Aristotle Poetics: Editio maior of the Greek text with historical introduction and philological commentaries. By Leonardo Tarán and Dimitri Gutas. Leiden and Boston: Brill,...
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Golden Sponge Stick Competition 2012
It’s that time of year again for the school-set to set reed to tablet and start writing a bit of ancient fiction in the manner of Caroline Lawrence with the goal of winning the coveted Golden Sponge...
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Baltimore Illegal Coin Import Stunt: Finit
.Cultural property Lawyer Rick Hilaire has been the first to share with the world the news Appeals Court Sides with Federal Attorneys in ACCG Baltimore Coin Case. Those of you who are not bored out of...
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Terence, The Lady from Andros 126
A much-quoted phrase (begetter of more than 20,000 Google results). hinc illae lacrimae. Hence those tears. Filed under: Terence
View ArticleGoogle being evil: removing close minimize restore button from IE9 but not...
I’ve just come across something that looks weird. When I open Google mail in IE9, and hit Alt+Space to minimize it, I find that the menu bar has been interfered with, and the close, minimize and...
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Aragormney
Joe Weaks has created another Lord of the Rings Romney meme photo, as you can see. Last time it was Sauromney, this time it is Aragormney!
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Herculaneum by DJ PandaJ feat. Frankie Hi-NGR MC
Weird but interesting ... A recitation in Latin of Pliny's description of the eruption of Vesuvius.
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The great human expansion (Henn et al. 2012)
I have been a rather outspoken critic of the "standard recent Out-of-Africa model" of human origins. A new paper by Henn, Cavalli-Sforza, and Feldman presents an up-to-date version of that model, and...
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Byzantine Survey Archaeology: Looking across Chronological Boundaries
As my post yesterday mentioned, I am going to present a paper in the final panel at this spring’s Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium on Byzantine Survey Archaeology. The symposium is an exciting one and...
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Lice on the Sabbath and related issues
THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN from Adam Kirsch at Tablet: Of Lice and Men: Study of the Talmud’s second tractate reveals how the rabbis stuck to logic and made it sacred.Reading the first pages of the...
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Buyers Beware: Surfacing Medici Material
Last week I was discussing the continued surfacing of material identified from the Medici Dossier with Cambridge University researcher Christos Tsirogiannis. It is clear that material is shortly due to...
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Collins on the DSS
JOHN J. COLLINS: Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? at the Huffington Post.The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered near the site of Qumran, south of Jericho in the years 1947-1956 were dubbed "the...
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Key element for identifying western Eurasian Neanderthals questioned
An assessment of the nasal floor configurations of the available and sufficiently intact, archaic Homo maxillae from eastern Eurasia shows them to have a prevalence of the bi-level pattern similar to...
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Ancient European DNA assessment with 'globe10'
I had previously assessed the same using globe4. See post on globe10 and associated spreadsheet. The results appear similar to previous analyses overall, with the main features being the presence of...
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Cross memorial update
HERSHEL SHANKS'S MEMORIAL TO FRANK MOORE CROSS has now been updated with the addition of memorials written by Cross's students and others, including the one I published on PaleoJudaica last week....
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