As April draws to a close ...
Bread and Circuses' AM points us to some mp3 audio guides for Rome and Athens from the Guardian ... there's also some links to things about the new Ara Pacis museum ...
At About.com, N.S. Gill continues the Poetry Month features with one on Lucretius ...
Alun, who appears to have officially (re)named his blog to Archaeoastronomy, has a good post on the damage being caused to medieval artifacts by that guy claiming there's a pyramid in Bosnia ...
DK at PhDiva has a feature on the Artemidorus Papyrus ... there's also a (perhaps cautionary) tale of what happens to things repatriated by museums (specifically, the 'Croesus Treasure') ...
Forgot to mention Father Foster yesterday: It’s a well known story, a she-wolf comes trotting out from the Palatine hill and discovers twins abandoned in a basket on the shores of the Tiber River. She saves them and many years later they found the city of Rome. Our “Latin Lover” spins the tale...
Pro Magistris' MK is also revisiting the foundation of Rome ...
Roman History Books is tied up a bit, but does give some online background links to Gibbon, for those participating in the book chats ...
Various folks are addressing an AIA statement on unprovenanced antiquities ... see, e.g., Paleojudaica (see also this response from the AIA), Thoughts on Antiquity, and the Biblical Archaeology Review people (who have a petition up). [I have to digest all this before I comment on it]
[update: see now the 'official version' at the AIA site]
I think a couple of papers have been added to the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics page (at the bottom, alas; if they're not going to add new material to the top of the page, could someone at least alert them that putting a 'date added' note would be very useful?)
Bread and Circuses' AM points us to some mp3 audio guides for Rome and Athens from the Guardian ... there's also some links to things about the new Ara Pacis museum ...
At About.com, N.S. Gill continues the Poetry Month features with one on Lucretius ...
Alun, who appears to have officially (re)named his blog to Archaeoastronomy, has a good post on the damage being caused to medieval artifacts by that guy claiming there's a pyramid in Bosnia ...
DK at PhDiva has a feature on the Artemidorus Papyrus ... there's also a (perhaps cautionary) tale of what happens to things repatriated by museums (specifically, the 'Croesus Treasure') ...
Forgot to mention Father Foster yesterday: It’s a well known story, a she-wolf comes trotting out from the Palatine hill and discovers twins abandoned in a basket on the shores of the Tiber River. She saves them and many years later they found the city of Rome. Our “Latin Lover” spins the tale...
Pro Magistris' MK is also revisiting the foundation of Rome ...
Roman History Books is tied up a bit, but does give some online background links to Gibbon, for those participating in the book chats ...
Various folks are addressing an AIA statement on unprovenanced antiquities ... see, e.g., Paleojudaica (see also this response from the AIA), Thoughts on Antiquity, and the Biblical Archaeology Review people (who have a petition up). [I have to digest all this before I comment on it]
[update: see now the 'official version' at the AIA site]
I think a couple of papers have been added to the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics page (at the bottom, alas; if they're not going to add new material to the top of the page, could someone at least alert them that putting a 'date added' note would be very useful?)