October 2011
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Roman military camps found on the Lippe
To add to the excitement of the big military camp in Germany that was blogged last week by Adrian Murdoch, there’s an additional site and first century B.C. finds. Look at those dates: Drusus’ German campaign.
The original announcement:
Bread and Circuses: Roman military camp at Olfen on the Lippe: “Excitement is growing about the scale of the discovery of a military camp, in...
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Commodus’ Supernova? from rogueclassicism →
Commodus’ Supernova? by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 30, 2011 at 11:59PM
The Telegraph has an item which opens thusly:
The Chinese were baffled by what they described as a “guest star”, which appeared in the night sky in 185AD and lingered for 8 months.
Astronomers solve 2,000 year old supernova mystery (Telegraph)
Similarly, the Guardian piece on the same subject...
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Birthplace of Augustus Found? from rogueclassicism →
Birthplace of Augustus Found? by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 29, 2011 at 11:41PM
Another one which we hope will make it to the English presses, but this is one I just can’t sit on any longer. Tip o’ the pileus to Martin Conde for alerting us to Clementina Panella et al’s find of what is believed to be the house where Augustus was born. The identification is based on the...
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On Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin …’ from... →
On Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin …’ by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 27, 2011 at 07:40PM
Interesting bit (in the context of a film review) in the Telegraph … here’s the incipit:
What do Shakespeare, Keats and Dickens have in common, apart from being great writers, and masters of the English language? The answer is pretty obvious. None of them went to university: to some...
New Collapse →
Yet another wall collapses at Pompeii →
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CFP: A theatre of Justice: Aspects of performance...
CALL FOR PAPERS
A theatre of Justice: Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric
19-20 April 2012, University College London, London
The notion of “performance” has recently attracted considerable scholarly attention both in literary criticism and in cultural history. In fundamentally “performative” societies, such as the Greek and Roman, a...
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CFP: Crowned Victor: Competition and Games in the... →
CFP: Crowned Victor: Competition and Games in the Ancient World by Samuel J. Huskey at American Philological Association. Published October 26, 2011 at 06:59AM
4th Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Friday, March 2 to Saturday, March 3, 2012
Submission Deadline: January 7, 2012
The graduate students of the University...
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CFP: Decline and Fall: Rome in Translation,... →
CFP: Decline and Fall: Rome in Translation, Translation in Rome by Samuel J. Huskey at American Philological Association. Published October 26, 2011 at 06:41AM
This seminar is part of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012
Rome was an empire built on translation. She developed a literary tradition through a...
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Open Access Journal: Herculaneum Archaeology from... →
Open Access Journal: Herculaneum Archaeology by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published October 25, 2011 at 08:36PM
[First posted in AWOL 30 November 2009. Updated 25 October 2011]
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Designing a Visual Interface for GAP Texts from... →
Designing a Visual Interface for GAP Texts by nrabinowitz at Google Ancient Places. Published October 26, 2011 at 05:56AM
In my last two posts, I covered some of the technical approaches we used to develop GapVis, a visual interface for exploring GAP texts. In this post, I’ll discuss some of the interface and visualization choices we made in designing the application.
Our starting point, as...
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British School at Rome Postgraduate course in... →
British School at Rome Postgraduate course in Epigraphy July 16-24 2012 by Gabriel Bodard at Current Epigraphy. Published October 25, 2011 at 11:03PM
Posted for Abigail Graham:
British School at Rome Postgraduate course in Epigraphy July 16th-24th 2012
As you may know, the great success and popularity of the Epigraphy training course at the British School at Athens has prompted efforts...
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CFP: Fokus Fortifikation, Dec 2012, Danish...
This came into my inbox this evening. An interesting looking conference on ancient fortifications, I’ve got a research interest in this sort of thing but from the historiographical and literary point of view, rather than from the archaeological angle.
Fokus Fortifikation
Conference on the Research of Fortifications in Antiquity 6-9 December 2012 at the Danish Institute at Athens Organized...
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Open Access Journal: Leeds International Classical... →
Open Access Journal: Leeds International Classical Studies by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published October 24, 2011 at 11:07PM
[First posted in AWOL 4 November 2009. Updated 24 October 2011]
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Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey | Love of History... →
An interesting perspective on those travel documentaries. I’ll have to keep an eye out for this programme (SBS is my best guess as to who will carry it) as I like Joanna Lumley and it looks like it could be interesting.
Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey | Love of History Blog: “On Tuesday night I glued myself on tv and watched with great interest Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey. I have to...
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Collapse of a small part of the wall at the Nola... →
Collapse of a small part of the wall at the Nola Gate by noreply@blogger.com (Jo Berry) at Blogging Pompeii. Published October 23, 2011 at 08:38PM
There’s going to be the usual hysteria about this in the media (sigh), but can I just point everyone towards this video of the damage on You Tube. The collapse is not extensive, and I can’t see that it’s fair to blame anyone for it...
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'Twas the night before Creation… from... →
‘Twas the night before Creation… by (author unknown) at Pharyngula. Published October 23, 2011 at 03:30AM
According to Ussher, the world was created the evening before 23 October 4004BC, which means that our planet should now be 6015 years old, as of tonight.
She really let herself go, I’m afraid. I swear, she looks about 4½ billion years old. Motherhood is tough, but I...
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Roman military camp at Olfen on the Lippe from... →
Roman military camp at Olfen on the Lippe by Adrian Murdoch at Bread and Circuses. Published October 23, 2011 at 04:21PM
Excitement is growing about the scale of the discovery of a military camp, in all liklihood from the end of the first century BC, along the River Lippe. It is being described as “the find of the century” by archaeologists for the Landschaftsverbandes...
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Has another Pompeii wall collapsed? from A... →
Has another Pompeii wall collapsed? by Mary Beard at A Don’s Life. Published October 23, 2011 at 07:33AM
The short answer is ‘no’.
By chance I am on the site of Pompeii for the weekend. It is now swarming with more journalists than tourists, and all (it seems) with a determination to hype another collapse, another Pompeian disaster. That is to say, they are here with a...
Homer’s “Iliad”: Winged words | The Economist →
Three new translations and a reissue of an old translation of the Iliad!
Homer’s “Iliad”: Winged words | The Economist: “And yet, it comes as something of a surprise that this month there are four translations competing for the status of a definitive “Iliad”. Richmond Lattimore’s translation, originally from 1951, has been reissued with scholarly notes and a new introduction. For years,...
Etruscan Image of Childbirth →
Etruscan Childbirth Image « rogueclassicism: “An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child.”
(Via rogueclassicism.)
Roman Forum flooded October 20 - pictures. →
Pictures of the Forum, which flooded on Oct 20. Also some historical photos of other flooding incidents in the past and Italian newspaper articles about it.
Rome, Flooded – Torrential Rainstorm – Roman and the Imperial Forums, Coloseum Valley and the Circus Maximus Underwater. Dott.ssa Astrid D’Eredita` / Fotos: Claudio Valletti / La Repubblica.it (20/10/2011). « Rome – The Imperial Fora...
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CFP: Religion in Pieces from American Philological... →
CFP: Religion in Pieces by Samuel J. Huskey at American Philological Association. Published October 21, 2011 at 05:38AM
An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University, April 27-29th, 2012
The quest to determine the contours and contents of ancient religion has...
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Content Improvement Projects and Call for... →
Content Improvement Projects and Call for Volunteers — Pleiades: “Please visit the new Content Development Projects section of the Pleiades site. There you’ll already find information about two projects that were invented by Pleiades community members and that, staffed and organized by volunteers, are now underway.
We invite you to add a comment or a page to suggest or start...
Memory
schmudde:
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you.
~ away-withthesea
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CFP: "Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient...
From CLASSICISTS mailing list:
Please forward to interested parties. Thank you very much, William den Hollander
ColPAH Graduate Conference Organizing Committee Call for Papers
“From the Inside Looking Out: Alterity and Creating the Other in Ancient History”. The 1st Annual Graduate Conference in Ancient History of the Joint Collaborative Programme in Ancient Greek and Roman...
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CFP: "South Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean"...
From the CLASSICISTS mailing list:
Call for Papers: “South Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean: Cultural Interactions” 17th ‐ 21st July 2012, Melbourne, Australia
Hosted by the Centre for Greek Studies and the A.D. Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, this conference will focus on the movement of people and...
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2011.10.46: Children in the Roman Empire:... →
2011.10.46: Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published October 21, 2011 at 07:26PM
Review of Christian Laes, Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within. Cambridge/New York: 2011. Pp. xv, 334. $105.00. ISBN 9780521897464.
SMH: Classics back in vogue as schools embrace... →
All Greek to them: classics back in vogue as schools embrace languishing languages: “In schools, the classics are steadily increasing their enrolment numbers.
This year, Gosford High School and St Catherine’s of Waverley joined the 43 schools teaching classical languages, resulting in 342 enrolments from a typically small number that do languages.
Chinese background speakers is the...
A Don's Life: First year Ancient History at... →
A Don’s Life: First year Ancient History at Newnham. What do we do?:
Anyway a week later, they came to their joint supervision, brilliantly prepared to talk about these texts. They had got together, they had shared their knowledge, they had googled and explored the library.. and they could really talk about what these utterly unfamiliar inscriptions had to say. And they had learned a little...
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Do You Have Access to JSTOR? from AWOL - The... →
Do You Have Access to JSTOR? by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published October 19, 2011 at 12:47AM
On AWOL’s the right hand sidebar, I have added a poll to see what proportion of AWOL readers report having access to JSTOR through affiliation with an institution. If you are not sure, you can click through and try to read one of the journals listed yesterday in...
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Harryhausen conference, Nov 9 (UK). →
Ray Harryhausen made a number of very interesting stop-motion animation / live action mixed films about the classical world (as well as scent fiction), including the original Clash Of The Titans (his last film).
ANIMATING ANTIQUITY: HARRYHAUSEN AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Wednesday 9th November 2011, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
National Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Co-organised by Steve Green...
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Bringing ancient Greek papyri to life through AR |... →
(Via SCARLET.)
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Open Access Journal: Hirundo, the McGill Journal... →
Open Access Journal: Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published October 18, 2011 at 09:21AM
[First posted in AWOL 9 November 2009. Updated 17 October 2011] Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies
Hirundo, the McGill Journal of Classical Studies, is published once a year by the Classics Students Association...
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New Ancient World Content in JSTOR from AWOL - The... →
New Ancient World Content in JSTOR by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published October 18, 2011 at 12:16AM
Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s...
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Mail: Conference on The Research of Fortifications...
From: caroline.thurston@arch.ox.ac.uk
To: CLASSICISTS
Date: October 17, 2011 at 11:36PM
Subject: Conference on The Research of Fortifications in Antiquity
A conference on 'The Research of Fortifications in Antiquity' is to be
held at the Danish Institute in Athens, 6th-9th December 2012.
For enquiries and further information, see
http://bit.ly/n86rNa
Messages to the list are archived at...
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IRIS magazine
Dear Classicists, We’re very pleased to announce that our new website Iris online is now live! Iris online is the new website for Iris magazine, our termly magazine which has been sent free to state schools across the UK for some years.
Over the next few weeks we will be putting up the archives of the past five years of Iris magazine, as well as adding new content to the site every day....
Paper in Latomus 70,2 (2011)
This paper in the new Latomus looks interesting;
R. J. STARR, Format, Content, and Message : Reading the End of the Res gestae diui Augusti as an Inscription: p. 721-726.
Luckily my library still gets paper editions of this journal!
Begin forwarded message:
From: David Engels
Subject: Latomus 70,2 (2011)
Date: 14 October 2011 03:40:09 AEST
To: CLASSICISTS@liverpool.ac.uk
Reply-To: David...
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CFP: ‘HOMO PATIENS: Approaches to the patient in...
FINAL REMINDER: Call for papers for the International Conference: ‘HOMO PATIENS: Approaches to the patient in the ancient world’ (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 29.06.2012-01.07.2012) Deadline: 1st November 2011 This meeting aims at bringing together not only classicists and historians of medicine but also medical anthropologists and medical practitioners to discuss the figure of the ‘patient’...
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Marble Statue from Epidaurus from rogueclassicism →
Marble Statue from Epidaurus by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 17, 2011 at 07:35AM
From Athens News (I think I need to tip the ol’ pileus to Francesca Tronchin on this one … I have an ‘FT’ on the scrap of paper I wrote it down on):
A marble statue of the mythical god Hermes, a copy of a 4th century BC statue, has been discovered during restoration works of the surrounds...
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2011.10.28: A Cultural History of Sexuality,... →
2011.10.28: A Cultural History of Sexuality, Volume 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published October 17, 2011 at 07:42AM
Review of Mark Golden, Peter Toohey, A Cultural History of Sexuality, Volume 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World. Oxford/New York: 2011. Pp. xiv, 342. $550.00...
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Huge Mosaic Found in Turkey from rogueclassicism →
Huge Mosaic Found in Turkey by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 17, 2011 at 07:11AM
No … not a Canadian Thanksgiving story … here are the deets from Hurriyet:
Drilling work at a construction site in Hatay has unearthed ancient works including an 850-square-meter mosaic. Said to be Turkey’s largest, the mosaic will be exhibited in a new hotel at the site along with other...
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Vatican Underground from rogueclassicism →
Vatican Underground by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published October 16, 2011 at 12:04AM
I’m sure I’m not the only one who was disappointed to go to the Vatican and then find that I couldn’t get to the swell stuff beneath it (not all of it, anyway) … here’s some useful deets from the Irish Times (blame Virgin Mobile for getting that word ‘deets’ into my vocabulary):
NO TRIP TO Rome...
