September 2011
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2011.09.57: Celtic from the West: Alternative... →
2011.09.57: Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language, and Literature. Celtic Studies Publications 15 by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published September 30, 2011 at 07:57AM
Review of Barry W. Cunliffe, John T. Koch, Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language, and Literature....
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Magpie nesting time in our garden from... →
Magpie nesting time in our garden by Trevor at Trevor’s Birding. Published September 28, 2011 at 10:53PM
Australian Magpie (male)
Over recent weeks we’ve been watching an Australian Magpie’s nest on our property (see photo below). This nest has been used by the same pair of birds over the last 4 or 5 years. Each year they just refurbish it a little before settling down to the important...
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2011.09.55: Μαραθών: η μάχη και ο αρχαίος Δήμος /... →
2011.09.55: Μαραθών: η μάχη και ο αρχαίος Δήμος / Marathon: the Battle and the Ancient Deme by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published September 28, 2011 at 11:01PM
Review of Kostas Buraselis, Katerina Meidani, Μαραθών: η μάχη και ο αρχαίος Δήμος / Marathon: the Battle and the Ancient Deme. Athens: 2010. Pp. 374. ISBN 9789603542728.
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New exhibitions from Blogging Pompeii →
New exhibitions by j-t-berry@hotmail.co.uk (Jo Berry) at Blogging Pompeii. Published September 28, 2011 at 07:20PM
Several people have recently sent me information about forthcoming exhibitions. Sorry for my delay in posting them, I’ve been majorly distracted for the past couple of months. If you send me anything I will post it eventually. So, firstly a new exhibition in Paris at the Musée...
Exploration of Aldwych (abandoned) tube station →
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AD vs CE from A Don's Life →
AD vs CE by Mary Beard at A Don’s Life. Published September 26, 2011 at 10:58PM
Let’s get this quite straight: the BBC has not banned the use of BC and AD, in favour of the religiously neutral BCE and CE.Though that is what a quick glance at a few of this week’s newspapers would suggest.
“The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord)...
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Classics for All Taking Off! from rogueclassicism →
Classics for All Taking Off! by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published September 26, 2011 at 07:20PM
Peter Jones, in addition to his regular Ancient and Modern column in the Spectator, has just penned (in the same publication) an item about the Classics for All effort
Some 15 years ago, at the behest of the then editor Charles Moore, I wrote a jovial 20-week QED: Learn Latin column for...
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2011.09.49: Roman Landscape: Culture and... →
2011.09.49: Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. Greece & Rome. New Surveys in the Classics, 39 by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published September 26, 2011 at 05:15PM
Review of Diana Spencer, Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. Greece & Rome. New Surveys in the Classics, 39. Cambridge/ New York: 2010. Pp. xvi, 228. $21.99 (pb). ISBN...
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In the News: Classic Comeback from American... →
In the News: Classic Comeback by Samuel J. Huskey at American Philological Association. Published September 26, 2011 at 05:45AM
A new programme to revive Latin and Greek in our schools
Peter Jones writes in Spectator.co.uk:
Some 15 years ago, at the behest of the then editor Charles Moore, I wrote a jovial 20-week QED: Learn Latin column for the Daily Telegraph. It attracted a huge...
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Latin On the Brink Again? from rogueclassicism →
Latin On the Brink Again? by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published September 25, 2011 at 05:54AM
Hmmm … we’re starting to see more news of Latin programmes on the brink … From the Hartford Courant:
After Suffield High School’s Latin teacher retired in June, the district struggled in vain to find a full-time replacement for the nine students — out of the high school’s nearly 900 — still...
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CFP: War as Spectacle from rogueclassicism →
CFP: War as Spectacle by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published September 25, 2011 at 05:49AM
Seen on the Classicists list:
War as Spectacle
CALL FOR PAPERS
Open University
Milton Keynes
15 June 2012
This one day symposium will explore the theme of war as spectacle in classical antiquity and its reception in subsequent centuries, down to the present day. We are hoping to stimulate...
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The Fox Effect from Pharyngula →
The Fox Effect by (author unknown) at Pharyngula. Published September 24, 2011 at 01:25AM
What a curious phenomenon: this is a video of the notorious Fox Effect, in which an actor pretended to be an expert and babbled fluff and nonsense at an audience of psychiatrists, and they sat and swallowed it and came away with an impression that the speaker was competent. I knew the content was going to...
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2011.09.46: Macrobius: Saturnalia. Volume III:... →
2011.09.46: Macrobius: Saturnalia. Volume III: Books 6-7. Loeb classical library 512 by (author unknown) at Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Latest Reviews. Published September 24, 2011 at 08:15AM
Review of Robert A. Kaster, Macrobius: Saturnalia. Volume I: Books 1-2. Loeb classical library 510. Cambridge, MA/ London: 2011. Pp. lxxiii, 387. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996496.
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Trismegistos News: Trismegistos People from AWOL -... →
Trismegistos News: Trismegistos People by Charles Ellwood Jones at AWOL - The Ancient World Online. Published September 24, 2011 at 05:42AM
Trismegistos People
Beta Version September 2011 Introduction
Trismegistos People is a tool dealing with personal names of non-royal individuals attested as living in Egypt in documentary texts between BC 800 and AD 800, including all languages and scripts...
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'Pompeian Red' is/was really 'Pompeian Yellow'?... →
‘Pompeian Red’ is/was really ‘Pompeian Yellow’? by acxsecb@nottingham.ac.uk (Sera Baker) at Blogging Pompeii. Published September 23, 2011 at 08:07AM
News of a set of interesting research carried out by La Sapienza discusses the effect of heat from the AD 79 Vesuvian eruption on pigments used in wall paintings. Pompeii shows its true colours ...
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Huge Roman Shipyard Found (Maybe) from... →
Huge Roman Shipyard Found (Maybe) by rogueclassicist at rogueclassicism. Published September 23, 2011 at 03:43AM
From a University of Southampton press release:
University of Southampton and British School at Rome (BSR) archaeologists, leading an international excavation of Portus – the ancient port of Rome, believe they have discovered a large Roman shipyard.
The team, working with the...
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On This Day (Maybe) (September 21) from theCAMPVS →
On This Day (Maybe) (September 21) by Eric at theCAMPVS. Published September 22, 2011 at 07:07AM
September 21st or 22nd, 454, was the date on which the Roman general Flavius Aetius was assassinated, after the defeat of Attila and the Huns:
The most immediate effect of the collapse of the Huns was that the emperor Valentinian III, thirty-five years old in 454, felt no further need of Aetius....
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the shit hits the fan from philosophy.com →
the shit hits the fan by Gary Sauer-Thompson at philosophy.com. Published September 11, 2011 at 10:14PM
Michael Lewis in It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! in Vanity Fair says with respect to Greek crisis and the European Union says that from the German perspective if the Greeks and the Germans are to coexist in a currency union, the Greeks need to change who they are. It is an article based on...
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Homer’s Trojan Theater from Travelling with... →
September 21, 2011 at 07:22PM - hestieia -
In her new book on the Iliad, Prof. Strauss Clay’s emphasizes the visual aspect of the narration and shows in an extremely convincing way that the spatial representation of the events happening during the battles described in book 12 to 17 is not only coherent but also an important part of the narrator’s performance-strategies.
In order to present the...
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Also Seen: Archimedes and Euclid? from... →
September 21, 2011 at 09:46AM - rogueclassicist - Scientific American seems to be somehow involved in that Walters Museum exhibition of the Archimedes Palimpsest:
Archimedes and Euclid? Like String Theory versus Freshman Calculus | Degrees of Freedom, Scientific American Blog Network.
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2011.09.39: The Roman Monetary System: the... →
September 20, 2011 at 09:53PM - (author unknown) - Review of Constantina Katsari, The Roman Monetary System: the Eastern Provinces from the First to the Third Century AD. Cambridge/New York: 2011. Pp. x, 304. $99.00. ISBN 9780521769464.
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Antonine Wall Exhibition from rogueclassicism →
September 20, 2011 at 09:33AM - rogueclassicist - Interesting coverage in the Guardian of a new exhibition at the recently reopened Hunterian Museum in Glasgow:
One of the Roman empire’s most enigmatic monuments – the Antonine wall between the firths of Forth and Clyde in Scotland, which briefly marked the northernmost point of the empire between the 140s and 160s AD – is set to reveal some of...
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The Effectiveness of Plagiarism Detection Software... →
September 19, 2011 at 11:35AM - (author unknown) - As you’d expect, it’s not very good: But this measure [Turnitin] captures only the most flagrant form of plagiarism, where passages are copied from one document and pasted unchanged into another. Just as shoplifters slip the goods they steal under coats or into pocketbooks, most plagiarists tinker with the passages they copy before...
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American Philological Association →
Samuel J. Huskey - September 19, 2011 at 05:20PM -
“Before he became a Professor of literature at Harvard, and way before he wrote his classic Shakespeare biography, Will in The World, Stephen Greenblatt was an I’ll-read-anything kind of kid. One day, he was standing in the campus book store, and there, in a bin, selling for ten cents (good price, even in 1961) he noticed a thin,...
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NPR: Lucretius, Man Of Modern Mystery from... →
September 19, 2011 at 05:20PM - Samuel J. Huskey -
“Before he became a Professor of literature at Harvard, and way before he wrote his classic Shakespeare biography, Will in The World, Stephen Greenblatt was an I’ll-read-anything kind of kid. One day, he was standing in the campus book store, and there, in a bin, selling for ten cents (good price, even in 1961) he noticed a thin,...
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Estimating a Full Backlog Based on a Sample of It... →
- I want to address a question I was sent recently and that I get asked about once a month. The question has to do with how we estimate how many hours it will take to deliver a given product backlog if we have no historical data at all…
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A Don's Life: Filming: the boot on the other foot →
Mary Beard - September 19, 2011 at 04:54AM -
When I was curator of the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge, I used to be terribly ambivalent about film crews wanting to come and use the Museum as a location (it’s a great one, by the way). On the one hand, it was wonderful publicity for what we had to offer: a free advert, really. On the other, it was always a total pain in the...
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Filming: the boot on the other foot from A... →
September 19, 2011 at 04:54AM - Mary Beard -
When I was curator of the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge, I used to be terribly ambivalent about film crews wanting to come and use the Museum as a location (it’s a great one, by the way). On the one hand, it was wonderful publicity for what we had to offer: a free advert, really. On the other, it was always a total pain in the...
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Another Hoard of Infant Bones … Dogs Too! →
rogueclassicist - September 19, 2011 at 09:43AM -
Very interesting item from Kathimerini:
A parallel universe lies beyond the fence of the American School of Classical Studies on Souidias Street in the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki. Time takes on a new dimension at the Wiener Laboratory, where those who research the past study human remains and other archaeological findings dating back...
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Another Hoard of Infant Bones … Dogs Too! from... →
September 19, 2011 at 09:43AM - rogueclassicist - Very interesting item from Kathimerini:
A parallel universe lies beyond the fence of the American School of Classical Studies on Souidias Street in the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki. Time takes on a new dimension at the Wiener Laboratory, where those who research the past study human remains and other archaeological findings dating back...
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Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book -... →
(author unknown) - August 31, 2011 at 02:41AM -
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From illustrator Andrew Kolb
SpaceOddity_AndrewKolb.pdf
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Controversy over Pompeii funding | The Art... →
- Politicians and archaeological experts are at loggerheads over the funding of the restoration and conservation of Pompeii ten months after the House of Gladiators collapsed. The house, which still lies in ruins, is awaiting the arrival of a task force of technicians and archaeologists, who have yet …
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Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book from... →
August 31, 2011 at 02:41AM - (author unknown) -
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From illustrator Andrew Kolb
SpaceOddity_AndrewKolb.pdf
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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: British Museum... →
Charles Ellwood Jones - September 16, 2011 at 02:36PM - The British Museum announced today that it has created a Semantic Web Endpoint
This month the British Museum launched a service known as a Semantic Endpoint that will allow more direct online access to the collection database. Although it is a technical service it will support the creation of new web applications and services accessible to...
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British Museum Collection Database Online from... →
September 16, 2011 at 02:36PM - Charles Ellwood Jones - The British Museum announced today that it has created a Semantic Web Endpoint This month the British Museum launched a service known as a Semantic Endpoint that will allow more direct online access to the collection database. Although it is a technical service it will support the creation of new web applications and services accessible to...
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Sitting and Standing at Work – John Gruber →
- Ergonomic experts at Cornell don’t recommend standing desks, instead:
Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward
titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20
minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE. …
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CFP: The Raw and the Rotten: Perversions of Eating... →
September 16, 2011 at 12:45AM - Samuel J. Huskey -
Boston University Department of Classical Studies
Graduate Student Conference
March 23-24, 2012
Keynote: Alexander Sens, Joseph Durkin, SJ, Professor of Classics, Georgetown University
The graduate students of Classical Studies at Boston University seek abstract submissions for their fourth-annual graduate student conference. We will...
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Also Seen: What That ‘Ides of March’ Coin Fetched... →
September 16, 2011 at 12:12AM - rogueclassicist - The incipit of an item at Numismaster:
One of the most sought-after of all coins was included in the September Long Beach sale of Heritage Auction Galleries: an EID MAR (“Ides of March”) denarius struck by Marcus Junius Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar. In a 2008 vote of leading numismatists to find the 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, this coin was...
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On This Day (September 15) →
September 15, 2011 at 05:33PM - Eric -
September 15th is, according to Wikipedia (though I confess I haven’t looked for confirmation of the date), the anniversary of the death of the Eastern Roman emperor Constans II in 668. He was became perhaps the last Roman consul in 642 (the honor has been claimed for his father Heraclius Novus Constantinus, but E. Stein has argued that it is probable that...
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2011.09.22: Between Rome and Carthage: Southern... →
September 15, 2011 at 09:16AM - (author unknown) - Review of Michael P. Fronda, Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War. Cambridge: 2010. Pp. xxviii, 374. $99.00. ISBN 9780521516945.
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On This Day (September 13) →
September 13, 2011 at 03:30PM - Eric -
September 13th is the anniversary of the death of the Roman emperor Titus (Titus Flavius Vespasianus), who reigned for barely more than two years. The date is known from Suetonius’ Life 11:
Excessit in eadem qua pater villa Id. Septb. post biennium ac menses duos diesque XX. quam successerat patri, altero et quadragesimo aetatis anno.
You can find a...
Michael P. Fronda, Between Rome and Carthage:... →
Michael P. Fronda, Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxviii, 374. ISBN 9780521516945. $99.00.
Reviewed by Mark Thatcher, Creighton University (markthatcher@creighton.edu) Preview
Michael Fronda’s excellent book is the first modern monograph in English on Rome’s southern Italian allies in the Second...
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Modern-Day Amazons. Love it! →
August 15, 2011 at 10:55PM - Yurie Hong - Modern-day Amazons. Love it.
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Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men....
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The Value of Stable Teams →
September 15, 2011 at 06:13AM - (author unknown) - As a senior manager, one of the most valuable things you can do for any development team is to create an organizational structure that enables stable teams. Permanent, lasting teams; not teams that assemble for a project and then disband to reform around a new project. Particularly if projects…
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