Since we missed last weekend's installment, this one is pretty big:
N.S. Gill has a pile of interesting stuff ... comments on Cleopatra's latest beauty assault ... an etymology quiz on geometry terms ... a piece on Cupid ... on Pythagoras and transmigration ... Rome's worst defeats ...
Kristian Minck writes about the Volterran Dead-wagon ...
Troels Myrup has some good thoughts on why conference proceedings should be a thing of the past ...
Michael Gilleland was commenting on Killing God ... there was a nice don't-worry-be-happy epigram from Palladas ... comments on the etymology of cumber-ground ... noses ... some ancient parallels to holy water ... plagues ...
Alun Salt is looking at the orientation of Roman camps ...
Adrian Murdoch has been posting like a bandit (does that make any sense?) ... on the death of Jovian ... on dressing like a Roman ... Eudoxia and John Chrysostom ... a series on Severian of Gabala ... here too ... and here ... and here ...
The antiquarian had some nice photos ... a romano-celtic bronze mirror ... some greek pottery ... I just realized there are piles of links here, so it's best just to point you to the main page (plenty of ancient stuff among the menhirs) ...
Ed Flinn continues to post his collection of coins ...
At Campus Mawrtius, Eric has been reading some interesting stuff ... and the snow has put Horace in his mind ...
Irene Hahn had a nice post on the great fire at Rome in 64 ...
David Parsons links to the new A Level criteria ... he's also made it easier to access the myriad audio files at the ARLT site ...
A trio of interesting posts from Magister Patricius and his discipuli discipulaeque on Catullus ... here (the passer poem) ... here (70)... and here ...
Laura Gibbs continues to post piles of interesting educational materials ...
Good advice for prospective grad students from April DeConick ...
Mary Beard reviews the Treasures of Afghanistan ... she also comments on the Cleopatra's nose thing ... confesses to making a howler ... and the Elgin Marbles thing ...
Down the hall, Peter Stothard was also pondering the raison d'etre for the Cleopatra thing ...
Tropaion has a BBC video about Helike ...
New Spanish blog on the block: Historia Clasica by Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau ...
Peter Jones has posted a bunch of Ancient and Modern columns at the Friends of Classics site ...
I can't remember if we've ever mentioned the Texas Classics Association's Greek Too! page ...
The Winter 2007 edition of the CSA newsletter is up (with some interesting website reviews inter alia) ...
The Center for Hellenic Studies has put up Issue 3 of Classics@ ...
Father Foster was talking about Claudius this week ... and 'collective healing' (haven't had a chance to listen to this one yet) ...
The US-as-Rome comparisons for the past fortnight include: Hubris of Empire ... Considering Parallels with Rome ... Ceasar [sic]: A Real War President ... Classic Literature has lessons for President Bush ... Extreme Umbrage ...
That's pretty much it for my attention span right now ... issue 42-43 of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will follow later today ...
N.S. Gill has a pile of interesting stuff ... comments on Cleopatra's latest beauty assault ... an etymology quiz on geometry terms ... a piece on Cupid ... on Pythagoras and transmigration ... Rome's worst defeats ...
Kristian Minck writes about the Volterran Dead-wagon ...
Troels Myrup has some good thoughts on why conference proceedings should be a thing of the past ...
Michael Gilleland was commenting on Killing God ... there was a nice don't-worry-be-happy epigram from Palladas ... comments on the etymology of cumber-ground ... noses ... some ancient parallels to holy water ... plagues ...
Alun Salt is looking at the orientation of Roman camps ...
Adrian Murdoch has been posting like a bandit (does that make any sense?) ... on the death of Jovian ... on dressing like a Roman ... Eudoxia and John Chrysostom ... a series on Severian of Gabala ... here too ... and here ... and here ...
The antiquarian had some nice photos ... a romano-celtic bronze mirror ... some greek pottery ... I just realized there are piles of links here, so it's best just to point you to the main page (plenty of ancient stuff among the menhirs) ...
Ed Flinn continues to post his collection of coins ...
At Campus Mawrtius, Eric has been reading some interesting stuff ... and the snow has put Horace in his mind ...
Irene Hahn had a nice post on the great fire at Rome in 64 ...
David Parsons links to the new A Level criteria ... he's also made it easier to access the myriad audio files at the ARLT site ...
A trio of interesting posts from Magister Patricius and his discipuli discipulaeque on Catullus ... here (the passer poem) ... here (70)... and here ...
Laura Gibbs continues to post piles of interesting educational materials ...
Good advice for prospective grad students from April DeConick ...
Mary Beard reviews the Treasures of Afghanistan ... she also comments on the Cleopatra's nose thing ... confesses to making a howler ... and the Elgin Marbles thing ...
Down the hall, Peter Stothard was also pondering the raison d'etre for the Cleopatra thing ...
Tropaion has a BBC video about Helike ...
New Spanish blog on the block: Historia Clasica by Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo Dalmau ...
Peter Jones has posted a bunch of Ancient and Modern columns at the Friends of Classics site ...
I can't remember if we've ever mentioned the Texas Classics Association's Greek Too! page ...
The Winter 2007 edition of the CSA newsletter is up (with some interesting website reviews inter alia) ...
The Center for Hellenic Studies has put up Issue 3 of Classics@ ...
Father Foster was talking about Claudius this week ... and 'collective healing' (haven't had a chance to listen to this one yet) ...
The US-as-Rome comparisons for the past fortnight include: Hubris of Empire ... Considering Parallels with Rome ... Ceasar [sic]: A Real War President ... Classic Literature has lessons for President Bush ... Extreme Umbrage ...
That's pretty much it for my attention span right now ... issue 42-43 of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will follow later today ...