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Zenobia: Empress of the East | “I AM HIYA!” Part 2
“I AM HIYA!” Part 2: More Graffiti in Dura Europos (3rd century CE) via: Zenobia: Empress of the East
The Stoa Consortium | Which beginners’ Ancient Greek textbooks do you use?
Which beginners’ Ancient Greek textbooks do you use? via The Stoa Consortium
The Edithorial | Meet the Classicist Foremothers
Meet the Classicist Foremothers via The Edithorial
Dorothy King’s PhDiva | Lebanon seizes artifacts smuggled from Syria
Lebanon seizes artifacts smuggled from Syria via Dorothy King’s PhDiva
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues | On their Way: Smuggled Syrian antiquities recovered in Lebanon
On their Way: Smuggled Syrian antiquities recovered in Lebanon via Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues
“He has a wife you know” | Ancient Roman Dogtag
Ancient Roman Dogtag via “He has a wife you know”
kateantiquity | The Other Ten Percent
The Other Ten Percent via kateantiquity [on the recent JACT Conference]
Bored Viking carved outline of his foot on ship deck
The carved outline of foot found on the removable deck planking of the late 9th century Viking Gokstad Ship bears mute witness to how at least one crew member passed the time during a long sea voyage. There are two foot outlines: a right foot carved across two planks and a weaker outline of a [...]
Ancient Lives Project Update
Wow … it’s hard to believe that the Ancient Lives Project has been around for almost two years now (see our initial coverage: Help Transcribe the Oxyrhynchus Papyri) … according to this interesting video from the Guardian, as of last October they’ve had well over a million transcriptions done in this crowd-sourcing project … check […]
Pondering the Historicity of the Trojan War
Over at the OUP Blog, Eric Cline has keyboarded an interesting post … here’s a bit in medias res: [...]According to the Greek literary evidence, there were at least two Trojan Wars (Heracles’ and Agamemnon’s), not simply one; in fact, there were three wars, if one counts Agamemnon’s earlier abortive attack on Teuthrania. Similarly, according […]
Battle of Mons Graupius Site Found (?)
From the Herald: A HISTORIAN is claiming to have found the site of one of Scotland’s most significant battles. Archaeologist Mike Haseler believes he has evidence to suggest that the battle of Mons Graupius took place in Moray. Mons Graupius was a key battle for British independence against the repressive hand of Rome almost 2000 […]
This Day in Ancient History:
ante diem xv kalendas junias c. 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Venantius 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Theodotus 1692 — death of Elias Ashmole (founder of the museum that bears his name)
Napoleonic POW ship models for sale
One of my favorite posts last year was about a model of a guillotine made out of animals bones by a Napoleonic prisoner of war in England. Britain had a surfeit of prisoners from France and other countries who fought on Napoleon’s side during the late 18th, early 19th century. An estimated 100,000 Napoleonic prisoners [...]
Everyday Objects, Part Two: Rock, Paper… Ancient Scissors?
Believe it or not, people have been losing pairs of scissors in their homes for thousands of years! Sadly, for most generations, the concept of a dollar store didn’t exist, which meant that losing your only pair of scissors made life just that much more inconvenient. But really, who made the first pair of scissors? [...]
CJ Online Review | Blondell on Ancient Platonic Reception
Posted with permission: Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception. By Nikos G. Charalabopoulos. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi + 331. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87174-7. Show More Summary
CJ Online Review | Clauss and Cuypers, Companion to Hellenistic Literature
Posted with permission: A Companion to Hellenistic Literature. Edited by James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers. Oxford and Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Hardcover, £136.00/$218.95. Pp. xxv + 550. ISBN 978-1-405-13679-2. Reviewed by J. Show More Summary
From the Mailbag: Septimana Latina Europea
In today’s email: Mechtildis, Thomas, Petrus, Robertus Amicis Latinitatis Plurimam Dicunt Salutem Vos invitamus Amoeneburgum ad Iubilaeum celebrandum! Agimus enim vicesimum quintum annum Septimanarum Latinarum Europaearum. Celebratio habebitur Amoeneburgi prope Marburgum die XVII mensis Augusti a. Show More Summary
Classical Words of the Day
exscind (Wordsmith) ostracism (OED) Linguatweets: verb 3 : verto, vertere, verti, versus => turn bit.ly/YF6RyC #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab— (@LatinVocab) May 17, 2013 incidere: to fall in, to fall: verb. Example sentence:Qui omnes insidias...Show More Summary
This Day in Ancient History:
ante diem xvi kalendas junias 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Heradius 1510 — death of Botticelli (Birth of Venus, among other Classical subjects) 1875 — a horse named Aristides won the first Kentucky Derby (he ‘just’ won)
Bread and Circuses | The Death of the Emperor Galerius
The Death of the Emperor Galerius via Bread and Circuses.
