Today's stroll down the midway ...
Sauvage Noble has some funerary inscriptions for pets (when you read these, it suddenly becomes obvious that Lesbia's sparrow may, in fact, have been a sparrow)...
Bread and Circuses has a post (pun intended) on Roman Philately (no, really ... it is) ...
Roman History Books looks at Gibbon's attitude toward history ...
Over at Bestiaria Latina, today it's Martha who has to contend with a dragon ...
About.com's N.S. Gill gathers together a pile of features about famous ancient mothers ...
Hobbyblog has a coin featuring Fausta (wife of Constantine) on both sides ... nice Mothers Day image ...
Laudator has a little bit of the Greek Anthology about Gyges ...
Memorabilia Antonina reviews some recent television programs about the ancient world ...
Paleojudaica points us to an article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism: Craig Evans, "Messianic Hopes and Messianic Figures in Late Antiquity" (I can't get the pdf to open; maybe it will work for you)
At the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics page: Jacob L. Mackey, "Saving the Appearances: The Phenomenology of Epiphany in Atomist Theology" (it's about Epicurean theology)
Apollo Magazine has a great interviewish thing with John Boardman (you might have to register, but it's free ... and is the interviewer of JB related to the interlocutor of Father Foster?) ...
Sauvage Noble has some funerary inscriptions for pets (when you read these, it suddenly becomes obvious that Lesbia's sparrow may, in fact, have been a sparrow)...
Bread and Circuses has a post (pun intended) on Roman Philately (no, really ... it is) ...
Roman History Books looks at Gibbon's attitude toward history ...
Over at Bestiaria Latina, today it's Martha who has to contend with a dragon ...
About.com's N.S. Gill gathers together a pile of features about famous ancient mothers ...
Hobbyblog has a coin featuring Fausta (wife of Constantine) on both sides ... nice Mothers Day image ...
Laudator has a little bit of the Greek Anthology about Gyges ...
Memorabilia Antonina reviews some recent television programs about the ancient world ...
Paleojudaica points us to an article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism: Craig Evans, "Messianic Hopes and Messianic Figures in Late Antiquity" (I can't get the pdf to open; maybe it will work for you)
At the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics page: Jacob L. Mackey, "Saving the Appearances: The Phenomenology of Epiphany in Atomist Theology" (it's about Epicurean theology)
Apollo Magazine has a great interviewish thing with John Boardman (you might have to register, but it's free ... and is the interviewer of JB related to the interlocutor of Father Foster?) ...