Okay ... here we go with what will be a 'best of the Classical Blogosphere' type Carnival. I think our field is too broad to post solely 'topically' as is usually done with carnivals, so I'll continue to do it from an individual blog viewpoint, for the most part. Note that during the week, when blogs comment on things in the news which have also been posted by yours truly, I'll mention it in a Bloglossalia section which will be appended to my post on the matter. I'm still not certain how folks can be aware that posts have had something added to them ... from my respondents to my request about updated posts, it does not appear that blog services will tell you whether comments or Bloglossalia items have been added. Suggestions and your comments, of course will be welcome.
Peter Stothard (the editor of the Times Literary Supplement) dropped me a line this week to point me to his very interesting blog which touches on all sorts of things classical. Since this is our first mention, we'll point you to the main page but highlight posts to scroll down to like Julius Bush ... Joy of Joys ... Civil Strife ... Diana and Paul ... etc.
Down the hall, Mary Beard is pondering the question of why we should learn Latin ... interesting comments follow
Another new blog which was brought to my attention is Chiron, which is an ambitious Spanish-language collaborative project ...
Philip Harland has added a third installment to his ancient jokes series ancient jokes ... the first is here ... the second here ...
Michael Gilleland has had his usual eclectic assortment of posts, of which we must draw your attention to Visio and Pedo and the followup post (with assorted comments from assorted folks) ... there's also another example of an asyndetic privative adjective (the post has a link to a page with all the other examples) ...
On Friday, David Parsons posted a pile of images from the British Museum including some hunting mosaics ... a grotty pot with Odysseus ... some Tanagra figures ... some mosaics depicting women at work ... and some depicting fish and fishing ...
Debra Hamel is posting a series on Pericles' Authority in Athens ...
Adrian Murdoch comments on an upcoming auction at Christie's of a ring which once belonged to Valerius and son ...
Over at Iconoclasm, Troels suggests that Italy is going to be targetting the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek next (about time some of those European musea were included in the Museum Case) ...
Kristian Minck adds some further commentary on matters suspensory ...
Dorothy King had an interesting post on Roman Britain and slavery ...
Lucky (?) Irene Hahn has been able to read the Parthenon Code and review it ...
Some blogs just have daily postings which are too good to overlook, so I'll just give a link to the main page. Ed Flinn's Hobbyblog, e.g. fits in this category (the most recent item with Hekate Triformis on it reminds me of those Caligulan coins of his sisters ... coincidence?) ... in a similar category would be Laura Gibbs' educational stuff, but we have to draw every Latin teacher's attention to her page of Latin Christmas Carols ... every year the Latinteach list is deluged with requests for this sort of thing, and now they're available early enough to plan around!
In other Carnivals, Jim West has the latest Biblical Studies Carnival ... also on the Biblical Studies front, Mark Goodacre is collecting reviews of the Nativity ... if you scroll to the bottom of NT Gateway and work your way up, you can follow MG's blogging of the SBL meeting as well.
I imagine it's still kosher to mention in this place that the latest issue of my Explorator newsletter is available via the Yahoo site, for those of you who aren't subscribers ... my Ancient World on Television listings will be posted similarly within a few hours.
Peter Stothard (the editor of the Times Literary Supplement) dropped me a line this week to point me to his very interesting blog which touches on all sorts of things classical. Since this is our first mention, we'll point you to the main page but highlight posts to scroll down to like Julius Bush ... Joy of Joys ... Civil Strife ... Diana and Paul ... etc.
Down the hall, Mary Beard is pondering the question of why we should learn Latin ... interesting comments follow
Another new blog which was brought to my attention is Chiron, which is an ambitious Spanish-language collaborative project ...
Philip Harland has added a third installment to his ancient jokes series ancient jokes ... the first is here ... the second here ...
Michael Gilleland has had his usual eclectic assortment of posts, of which we must draw your attention to Visio and Pedo and the followup post (with assorted comments from assorted folks) ... there's also another example of an asyndetic privative adjective (the post has a link to a page with all the other examples) ...
On Friday, David Parsons posted a pile of images from the British Museum including some hunting mosaics ... a grotty pot with Odysseus ... some Tanagra figures ... some mosaics depicting women at work ... and some depicting fish and fishing ...
Debra Hamel is posting a series on Pericles' Authority in Athens ...
Adrian Murdoch comments on an upcoming auction at Christie's of a ring which once belonged to Valerius and son ...
Over at Iconoclasm, Troels suggests that Italy is going to be targetting the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek next (about time some of those European musea were included in the Museum Case) ...
Kristian Minck adds some further commentary on matters suspensory ...
Dorothy King had an interesting post on Roman Britain and slavery ...
Lucky (?) Irene Hahn has been able to read the Parthenon Code and review it ...
Some blogs just have daily postings which are too good to overlook, so I'll just give a link to the main page. Ed Flinn's Hobbyblog, e.g. fits in this category (the most recent item with Hekate Triformis on it reminds me of those Caligulan coins of his sisters ... coincidence?) ... in a similar category would be Laura Gibbs' educational stuff, but we have to draw every Latin teacher's attention to her page of Latin Christmas Carols ... every year the Latinteach list is deluged with requests for this sort of thing, and now they're available early enough to plan around!
In other Carnivals, Jim West has the latest Biblical Studies Carnival ... also on the Biblical Studies front, Mark Goodacre is collecting reviews of the Nativity ... if you scroll to the bottom of NT Gateway and work your way up, you can follow MG's blogging of the SBL meeting as well.
I imagine it's still kosher to mention in this place that the latest issue of my Explorator newsletter is available via the Yahoo site, for those of you who aren't subscribers ... my Ancient World on Television listings will be posted similarly within a few hours.