Items of accumulation in my mailbox over the past little while:
One of the folks who will be helping people figure out their Xbox has a Classics degree (or at least studied Classics) ...
Latin teacher Scott Stephens was selected as Cobb County Teacher of the Year ...
One of the earliest uses of the interweb for 'exhibition' purposes way back in the previous century was something called Rome Reborn ... it has now been significantly enhanced, it appears; more details here but I can't see when we will get to see it ourselves ...
I can't recall whether we mentioned this 'truth about the Picts' piece from the Independent yet ...
The Marshall News Messenger has an oped piece connecting Plato's Gorgias to the upcoming US elections ...
Wanted in Rome reports on the discovery of a Roman mausoleum beneath the Stadio Flaminino ... I haven't found any further coverage, alas ...
BBC Radio 7 has been running a series of dramatizations based (it seems) on Suetonius ... the series does not appear to be online, but perhaps I'm wrong about that ...
A very nice site on the Ancient Olympics ...
Wallpaper had an interview with Bernard Tschumi about that museum ...
The Australian had a lengthy piece on the Villa of the Papyri ...
Nice abstract of an article in Archaeology on the Tomb of the Badger ...
The Dartmouth Review did just that with Alma-Tadema and Antiquity: Imaging Classical Sculpture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain at the Hood ...
Am I being unfair to spew coffee at reading that Tyne Daly will be portraying Clytemnestra? ....
If you've been looking for the Extant Works of Arataeus the Cappadocian online, they're now available ...
Some ClassCon in a piece at the Smartset pondering the vague notion of what the 'canon' is now ...
Folks might be interested in reading a small monograph put out by the Pentagon on Military Advantage in History, especially the chapters on the Macedonians and the Romans; definitely different reading about such things from people who are actually military folk ...
Speaking of the military, in the wake of that item on Sophocles' resonance with active soldiers last week, Nancy Reyes sent in a link (thanks!) to an online textbook on biomedical ethics which draws heavily on ancient sources ...
The Journal of Roman Archaeology website has been nicely revamped and has news of the latest monographs being put out therefrom ...
The Times and Transcript (a Canadian newspaper!) has a 'what have the Romans ever done for us' piece (I have to track down the Cicero quote it concludes with)...
Dallas News also had a piece on Dennis Miller, which included this excerpt:
One of the folks who will be helping people figure out their Xbox has a Classics degree (or at least studied Classics) ...
Latin teacher Scott Stephens was selected as Cobb County Teacher of the Year ...
One of the earliest uses of the interweb for 'exhibition' purposes way back in the previous century was something called Rome Reborn ... it has now been significantly enhanced, it appears; more details here but I can't see when we will get to see it ourselves ...
I can't recall whether we mentioned this 'truth about the Picts' piece from the Independent yet ...
The Marshall News Messenger has an oped piece connecting Plato's Gorgias to the upcoming US elections ...
Wanted in Rome reports on the discovery of a Roman mausoleum beneath the Stadio Flaminino ... I haven't found any further coverage, alas ...
BBC Radio 7 has been running a series of dramatizations based (it seems) on Suetonius ... the series does not appear to be online, but perhaps I'm wrong about that ...
A very nice site on the Ancient Olympics ...
Wallpaper had an interview with Bernard Tschumi about that museum ...
The Australian had a lengthy piece on the Villa of the Papyri ...
Nice abstract of an article in Archaeology on the Tomb of the Badger ...
The Dartmouth Review did just that with Alma-Tadema and Antiquity: Imaging Classical Sculpture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain at the Hood ...
Am I being unfair to spew coffee at reading that Tyne Daly will be portraying Clytemnestra? ....
If you've been looking for the Extant Works of Arataeus the Cappadocian online, they're now available ...
Some ClassCon in a piece at the Smartset pondering the vague notion of what the 'canon' is now ...
Folks might be interested in reading a small monograph put out by the Pentagon on Military Advantage in History, especially the chapters on the Macedonians and the Romans; definitely different reading about such things from people who are actually military folk ...
Speaking of the military, in the wake of that item on Sophocles' resonance with active soldiers last week, Nancy Reyes sent in a link (thanks!) to an online textbook on biomedical ethics which draws heavily on ancient sources ...
The Journal of Roman Archaeology website has been nicely revamped and has news of the latest monographs being put out therefrom ...
The Times and Transcript (a Canadian newspaper!) has a 'what have the Romans ever done for us' piece (I have to track down the Cicero quote it concludes with)...
Dallas News also had a piece on Dennis Miller, which included this excerpt:
During a rant on Fox News last year, for example, Mr. Miller skewered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in part by mocking his oratory skills, which are so lacking that the senator makes "Mr. Limpet seem like Demosthenes."
Everybody get your Google on to either learn or remind yourself that a) Mr. Limpet, played by Don Knotts, was a meek, ineffectual nebbish who turned into a cartoon fish in the 1964 film The Incredible Mr. Limpet , and b) Demosthenes was a Greek statesman (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) widely considered to be the greatest of the ancient Greek orators. In a word, wow.