Mary in Epiphanius' Panarion #78
So I was planning on starting to blog about Theophilus of Antioch, but that will wait. At the end of the week I received a request for comment about a bit of Greek from Epiphanius’ Panarion....
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CPAC Backlash: Responsible Coin Scholars Watch Out!
.It seems that a gubn'mint watch-list of the several hundred consistent US supporters of import of illegally exported antiquities is not the only possible result of the recent public comment process on...
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A New Mycenaean Center in the Corinthia
I just finished reading the T. Tartaron, D. Pullen, R. Dunn, L. Tzortsoulou-Gregory, A. Dill, and J. Boyce, “The Saronic Harbors Research Project (SHARP): Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos,...
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Is Mythicism Falsifiable?
As Neil Godfrey helpfully drew attention to in a comment, there seems to be no agreement among Jesus-mythicists about when the earliest Christian sources were written, which sources are the earliest,...
View ArticleeChurch blog threatened with legal action for a post
On January 28th 2012 eChurch blog included this post: I Tweeted earlier: “I sincerely believe that it is easier to publicly proclaim your sexuality than it is to declare mental illness and personality...
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Vietnamese ceramics on display in Alabama
The largest ever exhibition on Vietnamese ceramics is now on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art until April. Largest Vietnamese ceramics exhibition in US museum Vietnam Net Bridge, 03 February...
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Spartacus and the Slave Revolt of 73-71 B.C.
The story ofSpartacus has reached the point of popular culture, most recently realized inthe Starz min-series Spartacus Blood and Sand. This series utilizesfacts we know to be accurate and weaves them...
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Roma bajo la nieve
Gracias al reportaje fotográfico de Ettore Ferrari, para la agencia de noticias italiana Ansa, podemos disfrutar de estas atípicas imágenes de una Roma bajo la nieve... La Piazza Navona La Isla...
View ArticleHail the Conquering Hero
Here’s my son making his first solo French horn performance, accompanied by me on the piano. The piece is “Hail the Conquering Hero” from Judas Maccabaeus by Georg Friedrich Händel, in the arrangement...
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Nerds Reconsidering Star Wars Religion
A recent article in Tablet Magazine challenges the religious message of Star Wars in interesting ways (HT The Lead and Religion Nerd).On the one hand, the article makes some good points about the...
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Les inscriptions grecques de Thespies Online
Les inscriptions grecques de Thespies: Recueil des inscriptions grecques de Thespies (Béotie), tel qu’il avait été préparé par Paul Roesch (†), directeur de recherche au CNRS, et mis au net par Albert...
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Open Access Journal: Eruditio Antiqua
[First posted in AWOL 17 February 2010. Updated 6 February 2012]Eruditio Antiqua, revue électronique de l'érudition gréco-latineEruditio Antiqua est une revue électronique thématique, à comité de...
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Inédits de la MOM
Inédits de la MOMFondée en 1975 à partir d’instituts universitaires lyonnais à l’histoire déjà longue, la MOM a conservé dans ses archives nombre de documents scientifiques. Certains d’entre eux, tels...
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How to Feed a Pregnant Neanderthal
200,000 years of eating for two. It's hard to imagine what 200,000 years means in human lifetimes but, between ca. 250,000 and 40,000 years ago, the only human beings living in Europe were...
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Playing with PELAGIOS: The GAWD is Live
The is the lastest in an on-going series chronicling my dalliances with data published by the PELAGIOS project partners. I think it's safe to say that, thanks to the PELAGIOS partner institutions, that...
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Emerging Open Access Journal: Antiguo Oriente
Antiguo Oriente: Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo OrienteThe Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (CEHAO) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina will...
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My Autumn's And Winter's Work
Dear Reader Fiona asked me to write more about archaeology, which reminded me that I haven't said much about what I've been doing in my study these past months. I find that the last time was actually...
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Newly Open Access Journal: Argos: Revista de la Asociación Argentina de...
Argos: Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios ClásicosISSN 1853-6379 MisiónPublicar artículos, notas breves y reseñas sobre temas de filología, filosofía, historia y arte grecorromanos,...
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Fringe: Making Angels (Observers ex Machina)
The episode of Fringe which aired this past Friday, “Making Angels,” explores religious themes in interesting ways.The starting point of the episode is the death of the father of Astrid in the parallel...
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