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2012.02.10: The Earliest Romans: a Character Sketch
Review of Ramsay MacMullen, The Earliest Romans: a Character Sketch. Ann Arbor: 2011. Pp. xi, 193. $65.00. ISBN 9780472117987.
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New DSS in NYC
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION at Discovery Times Square is being refreshed: NYC's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit has 10 new scrolls (AP). Lots of interesting variety in the new collection.Background here...
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Workshop on Ancient Religion, Modern Technology
WORKSHOP at Brown University on 13-14 February: Ancient Religion, Modern Technology.This workshop will explore the intersection of ancient religion and the digital humanities. Can digital tools not...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: Karlsruhe Exhibition, "Antikenhehlerei: Das...
They dig for ancient "treasure", loot everything they can to make money and throw the rest away carelessly: looters destroy the cultural heritage of us all. On their trail are both archaeologists and...
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Besoin d’aide dans vos recherches ? Ubib est là !
À propos d’Ubib, le service de renseignements en ligne. Depuis le lundi 6 février 2012, le Service Commun de la Documentation de l’université Lille 3 a rejoint le réseau Ubib. Présentation de ce...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii idus februarias
ante diem vii idus februarias 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Adaucus in Phrygia Image via Wikipedia 1845 — the small glass ‘amphora’ known as the Portland Vase, while on loan to the British Museum, was...
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Reviews from BMCR
2012.02.12: Julia L. Shear, Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens. 2012.02.11: Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen im römischen Britannien. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, Bd 259....
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Emperors of Rome: Julian the Apostate
Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the last pagan emperor of Rome: Julian the Apostate: Emperors of Rome
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Greek Theatres
Nice feature in Athens News: ANCIENT Greece is remembered for many things, but one of its greatest legacies is drama. Today, in a technologically developed world where dramatic and comedic performances...
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Retelling the Ancient Story
An interesting class project … from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter: The classics department might normally get the brush-off, but not after this intersession. The students in Robert Powers’s...
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Popular Byzantium: An Interview with Paul Kastenellos, Part 1
Right before Christmas, I was surprised and excited to receive an unsolicited copy of a novel set in Byzantium: Paul Kastenellos, Count No Man Happy. (New York 2011). I was even more surprised to...
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Pour la troisième année consécutive, les doctorants de l'Institut Ausonius organisent une table ronde autour d'un thème particulier. Cette année, elle accueillera des doctorants des laboratoires de...
View ArticleAre these really the words of Ignatius?
A splendid blog post at TrevinWax contains the following item: Please pray for me, that I may have both spiritual and physical strength to perform my duties; that I may not only speak the truth but...
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Doctor Who: The Moonbase
In the episode “The Moonbase” the Doctor visits the result of Newt Gingrich’s promise. The episode witnesses the return of the Cybermen (the first time I saw part of this episode, I wasn’t aware of...
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Prehistoric remains uncovered in Bohol
Prehistoric remains and earthenware have been discovered in a cave in Bohol province in Central Philippines, although it looks as if treasure hunters may already have gotten there first! Prehistoric...
View ArticleAPA Blog : CONF: Theatre of Justice
Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric University College London, 19-20 April 2012 (Gordon House, Room 106) See the full programme at...
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Open Access Ancient Nubia and Sudan
On the occasion of the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies, The British Museum, 1 - 6 August 2010, I took the opportunity to gather links to open access materials relating to ancient Nubia...
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Playing with PELAGIOS: Open Context and Labels
Latest in the Playing with PELAGIOS series. I've just modified the tooling and re-run the Pleiades-oriented-view-of-the-GAWD report to include the RDF triples just published by Open Context and to...
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High coverage Denisovan genome
With 30-fold coverage from here. Approximately 30-fold coverage of the genome was generated using the Illumina GAIIx sequencing platform. We provide here the additional high-coverage sequence data...
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ASOR Heritage Fellow works at Bronze Age site in Lebanon
The 2011 excavation season at Kamid el-Loz, a site located in the central Beqa’a Valley of Lebanon, produced exciting and important results. It was only thanks to the Heritage Fellowship that I was...
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