Another somewhat slow news day ...
At Campus Mawrtius, Eric has a post on the number of the beast in Virgil (!) ... MG over at Laudator adds some comments of his own on the matter...
The APA has put up the slate of candidates for next summer's elections ...
At Blogographos, DH points us to a (p)review of an interesting bit of science fiction called The Plot to Save Socrates ...
A plethora of posts from Classics in Contemporary Culture ... War Games ... a piece on early versions of the Bible ... something on Anne Carson's latest ... and a piece on a former Encyclopedia Britannica editor's reading of Plutarch ...
Hobbyblog has a very nice follis of Maximian, with an image of Roma sitting in her temple ...
Aoidoi has comments on a couple of fragments of Alcaeus ... (see also the related blog post at William Blathers)
Sympotica Graecolatina tells us of the health benefits of the alcoholic beverages of the north ...
Over at Roman Army Talk, there's a neat thread where reenactors are posting photos of themselves in full kit ... these guys must spend a fortune on this stuff ...
... and as a sidenote, hopefully we won't cause major damage to the fabric of time if we express our gratitude in our Carnival that one of our posts was mentioned in the History Carnival (hosted by the Elfin Ethicist) ... on a note related to that, I'm still wondering about what byblosantiques offers on eBay, by the way, especially the 'authentic' sculptures ... I also notice a number of items from Marcel Gibrat are being sold all over the interent (including at eBay) ... given that MG was a former art restorer at the Met and subsequently an antiquities dealer, it seems useful to put his name in a file somewhere, just to see if it comes up in other contexts (no, I'm not implying anything here)
At Campus Mawrtius, Eric has a post on the number of the beast in Virgil (!) ... MG over at Laudator adds some comments of his own on the matter...
The APA has put up the slate of candidates for next summer's elections ...
At Blogographos, DH points us to a (p)review of an interesting bit of science fiction called The Plot to Save Socrates ...
A plethora of posts from Classics in Contemporary Culture ... War Games ... a piece on early versions of the Bible ... something on Anne Carson's latest ... and a piece on a former Encyclopedia Britannica editor's reading of Plutarch ...
Hobbyblog has a very nice follis of Maximian, with an image of Roma sitting in her temple ...
Aoidoi has comments on a couple of fragments of Alcaeus ... (see also the related blog post at William Blathers)
Sympotica Graecolatina tells us of the health benefits of the alcoholic beverages of the north ...
Over at Roman Army Talk, there's a neat thread where reenactors are posting photos of themselves in full kit ... these guys must spend a fortune on this stuff ...
... and as a sidenote, hopefully we won't cause major damage to the fabric of time if we express our gratitude in our Carnival that one of our posts was mentioned in the History Carnival (hosted by the Elfin Ethicist) ... on a note related to that, I'm still wondering about what byblosantiques offers on eBay, by the way, especially the 'authentic' sculptures ... I also notice a number of items from Marcel Gibrat are being sold all over the interent (including at eBay) ... given that MG was a former art restorer at the Met and subsequently an antiquities dealer, it seems useful to put his name in a file somewhere, just to see if it comes up in other contexts (no, I'm not implying anything here)