A handful of items ...
DK at PhDiva has posted some photos from the excavation of that site at York which was the subject of a recent Timewatch episode (and which I think might be an example of decimation) ... interesting stuff about which I'll hopefully have time to comment on later this week ...
The Poetry Month post by N.S. Gill at About.com today is devoted to Terence ... there's also a feature on the ludi Florales ...
Laudator is pondering the Roman Conquest of Britain ...
I seem to have my 'timing' off with Hobbyblog, so here's a link to the main page ... should be coins for yesterday and today by the time you get to it ...
Bread and Circuses is looking at the Vindolanda tablets ...
Dr. Weevil has an interesting excerpt of a missive from Housman to Gilbert Murray ...
I keep forgetting to mention there's been an update to the Centuries of Darkness site, specifically in regards to the dating of the Ulu Burun shipwreck ...
At the Archaeology Channel, there's an online film about Plovdiv (ancient Eumolpis/Philippopolis/Trimontium) which might be of interest: At the very heart of ancient Thrace, in modern Bulgaria, lies the equally ancient town of Plovdiv. Occupied since the end of the seventh millennium BC, the city has risen from the ashes many times in more than 8000 years. This video tells the remarkable story of Plovdiv from Neolithic to recent times. Captured by King Philip II of Macedon in 341 BC, the city became a Roman capital, was devastated by Attila the Hun, rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, captured by the Bulgars in AD 831, destroyed by Crusaders, and captured by the Turks in 1364.
DK at PhDiva has posted some photos from the excavation of that site at York which was the subject of a recent Timewatch episode (and which I think might be an example of decimation) ... interesting stuff about which I'll hopefully have time to comment on later this week ...
The Poetry Month post by N.S. Gill at About.com today is devoted to Terence ... there's also a feature on the ludi Florales ...
Laudator is pondering the Roman Conquest of Britain ...
I seem to have my 'timing' off with Hobbyblog, so here's a link to the main page ... should be coins for yesterday and today by the time you get to it ...
Bread and Circuses is looking at the Vindolanda tablets ...
Dr. Weevil has an interesting excerpt of a missive from Housman to Gilbert Murray ...
I keep forgetting to mention there's been an update to the Centuries of Darkness site, specifically in regards to the dating of the Ulu Burun shipwreck ...
At the Archaeology Channel, there's an online film about Plovdiv (ancient Eumolpis/Philippopolis/Trimontium) which might be of interest: At the very heart of ancient Thrace, in modern Bulgaria, lies the equally ancient town of Plovdiv. Occupied since the end of the seventh millennium BC, the city has risen from the ashes many times in more than 8000 years. This video tells the remarkable story of Plovdiv from Neolithic to recent times. Captured by King Philip II of Macedon in 341 BC, the city became a Roman capital, was devastated by Attila the Hun, rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, captured by the Bulgars in AD 831, destroyed by Crusaders, and captured by the Turks in 1364.