sorry ... i've got one more thing to test ... obviously that was wrong

4:32:13 PM    

ante diem xv kalendas sextilias

Mercatus -- the post-festival shopping spree continues

477 B.C. -- 300 members of the gens Fabiae die in the battle of the Cremera

390 (or 387) B.C. -- Gauls defeat the Romans at Allia

64 A.D. -- the Great Fire of Rome begins

69 A.D. -- Vitellius is given the titles of Augustus and pontifex maximus

203 A.D. -- martyrdom of Gundenis at Carthage

1374 -- death of Petrarch

11:31:39 AM    

Classical Philology 99.2 (April, 2004) is now available ... here are the TOCs:

Craig A. Gibson, Learning Greek History in the Ancient Classroom: The Evidence of the Treatises on Progymnasmata
 
Micaela Janan, The Snake Sheds Its Skin: Pentheus (Re)Imagines Thebes

Michael Fontaine, Agnvs KOPIN (Plautus Aulularia 56164)

Jonathan L. Ready, A Binding Song: The Similes of Catullus 61
 
David Woods, Ammianus Marcellinus 21.6.3: A Misunderstood Omen
   
BOOK REVIEWS
 
Pat Easterling and Edith Hall (eds.), Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

James Warren, Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia.
   
Randall L. B. McNeill, Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience.

Folks with appropriate privileges can access the journal online at the E-CP site. (by the way ... am I the only person who finds the various 'tocs alerting services' for scholarly journals to be unreliable/inconsistent?  The notice for CP 99.1 arrived earlier this week; 99.2 -- which is clearly available -- has not been sent out; CP isn't the only scholarly journal with this apparent problem).
 

11:18:15 AM    

Classical Philology 99.1 (JANUARY 2004) is now available ... here are the TOCs:

Matthew B. Roller, Exemplarity in Roman Culture: The Cases of Horatius Cocles and Cloelia

Elizabeth Depalma Digeser, An Oracle of Apollo at Daphne and the Great Persecution

Daryn Lehoux, Impersonal and Intransitive  E  pi  iota  sigma  mu  alpha  iota  nu  epsilon  iota

BOOK REVIEWS

Martha C. Nussbaum and Juha Sihvola (eds.), The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation.

Folks with appropriate privileges can access the journal online at the E-CP site.

11:11:12 AM    

This one popped up in this a.m.'s scan for Explorator and I held off on it to ensure I was reading it right. I apparently was ... how's this for a teaser intro to a book review in the Japan Times:

A poet is talking to a refrigerator. The refrigerator with whom he is conversing is Virgil -- yes, that Virgil, author of "The Aeneid" and later Dante's guide through the inferno. Virgil the refrigerator, Virgil the bard, is telling his young interlocutor about the calling they share: "A poet is always aiming to commit the perfect crime. But what, you ask, is this perfect crime? It is to create an entirely indecipherable work of art."

Thus the question arises: What, in "Sayonara, Gangsters," a novel in which Virgil is reincarnated as a refrigerator, has Genichiro Takahashi given us? Has he committed the perfect crime? First, let's dispense with what will be another mystery for those who don't read Japanese: Genichiro Takahashi -- who is he? [more]

... alas, I'd like to know more about the novel ... I guess I'll have to look for it ...

11:02:29 AM    

Issue 12 of Scholia has been put online with a pile of articles of interest:

Daniel B. Levine, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Odyssey 9: Odysseus Versus the Cave Man

Lawrence, Stuart E. Moral Decisions in Homer

Naoko Yamagata, Locating Power: Spatial Signs of Social Ranking in Homer and the Tale of the Heike

James Allan Evans, 'Self' and 'Other': The Ideology of Assimilation in Vergil's Aeneid

Sergio Casali, Impius Aeneas, Impia Hypsipyle: Narrazioni menzognere dall'Eneide alla Tebaide di Stazio

Bernard Kytzler, Der Regenbogen der Gefühle: Zum Kontrast der Empfindungen im antiken Roman

Vincent Hunink, Apuleius, Qui Nobis Afris Afer Est Notior: Augustine's Polemic against Apuleius in De Civitate Dei

Andrew F. Stone, Nautical and Marine Imagery in the Panegyrics of Eustathios of Thessaloniki

... all articles (as well as a pile of reviews) are available online ... they're best accessed via the Scholia page set up for this issue.

10:58:29 AM    

Martin M. Winkler (ed.), Gladiator: Film and History.

Christophe Chandezon, L'élevage en Grèce (fin Ve-fin Ier s. a.C.). L'apport des sources épigraphiques.

Lawrence J. Jost, Roger A. Shiner, Eudaimonia and Well-Being: Ancient and Modern Conceptions.

Alessandro Schiesaro, The Passions in Play: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama.

Warren C. Trenchard, A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek.

Hartmut Leppin, Theodosius der Große: auf dem Weg zum christlichen Imperium.

Lear on Almeida on Lear.

Alcock on Noy on Fraschetti.
 
I.M. Plant (ed.), Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome. An Anthology.

Duane R. Roller, The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier.

Karl-Wilhelm Weeber, Luxus im alten Rom: Die Schwelgerei, das süsse Gift.

Sharples on Gerson on Movia.

10:47:41 AM    

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

When Dr. Miriam (Scharf) Balmuth joined Tufts University's Department of Classics in 1964 as an assistant professor, she was a pioneer in a field normally closed to women.

Balmuth, 79, who taught at Tufts for four decades and was one of the early women to achieve eminence in her field, died of cancer June 30 at her home in Santa Fe, her residence since 2001.
 
One of the first women to be hired in the department - and, five years later, one of the first to receive tenure - Balmuth opened the field to new generations of women as she rose through the academic ranks, took part in numerous digs, and became internationally known.

In the 1970s, Balmuth's status as a world-renowned archaeologist was solidified when she directed the first American archaeological excavation on the island of Sardinia.

"She opened up the field of archaeology to the world. Hers was the first major scholarly dig to take place in Sardinia that put it on the map," said David Proctor, classics department administrator at Tufts.

During her years at Tufts, Balmuth was considered the driving force behind the creation of a formal, interdisciplinary archaeology program, Proctor said. "Miriam pushed down the door. She was a terrific woman, small, feisty, and pugnacious and an early academic feminist," Tufts Professor Sol Gittleman, a friend since Balmuth arrived at Tufts as a teaching assistant in 1962, said yesterday. "She was too short to be in your face, but she was in your face all the time about women in higher education.

"In the 1950s and 1960s, all higher education, certainly the classics, was a male club," Gittleman said. "Miriam came in just when the change was coming. She made a lot of noise. She was a great scholar and a great teacher and did everything she was supposed to do. She expected to be treated as a colleague in a day when the department head could tell a woman applicant, 'Thank you for your letter, but we're not hiring women.' "

Balmuth was born in New Brunswick, N.J., to Sigmund and Rose Scharf. She earned her bachelor's degree in classics at Cornell University in 1946, her master's in classical language at Ohio State University in 1950, and her doctorate in classical archaeology in 1964 at Harvard, at a time, Proctor said, "when female Ph.D.s in classical archaeology were not the norm."

Balmuth remained connected with Tufts after retirement and was promoted to research professor in 1998.

 

10:39:50 AM    

9.00 p.m. |HINT| The Roman Conquests
Although Caesar invaded it in 54 BC, Britain wasn't conquered until
43 BC when Claudius established Roman garrisons at Lincoln, York, and
Chester. Viewers go inside this savage period in British history and
enter the battlefield from an unique perspective--of those who fought
and died there. And a bloody period it proved to be for the Romans
had not reckoned on the ferocious campaign mounted against the all-
powerful Legions under the leadership of the legendary Queen Boudicca.

HINT = History International

10:13:16 AM