The before-the-big-snowstorm-hits edition:
As often, N.S. Gill starts us off, this week with features about Octavian's 'first settlement' (note in passing: the second series of Rome, which begins tonight, has a different/older guy playing Octavian) ... and one on Crossing the Rubicon ... she also links to an interesting Latin tutorial aimed at folks who who are looking at assorted document type things ....
Kristian Minck was looking at some 'carvings' of land transportation vehicles here and here ...
Adrian Murdoch tells us about a British sitcom called Chelmsford 123 (set in Roman Britain ... opening credits on YouTube) ... he also had comments on the Rome as USA analogies that are taking up too much space in newspapers of late ...
Glaukopis had a number of media-related items to note (including a reading of I,Claudius)
Michael Gilleland was his usual busy self, blogging on such various topics as the Sphinx and the Sphincter ... Classical Bravery ... various translations of Catullus 31 ... the Law of the Increasing Members (which isn't what it sounds like) ...
In a pair of posts, Irene Hahn was tracking down info on Agrippina the Younger ... and here ...
Similarly, Mary Beard ...
Nicholas Swift (at Nestor's Cup) comments on Callimachus' views on Quality v. Quantity ...
The Antiquarian had a very nice sardonyx cameo of Athena ... and some photos of a Roman bronze from the Toledo Museum of Art ...
Andrew Criddle guest blogging at Hypotyposeis had a post on Epiphany and Polycarp (am I the only one who thinks of Pokemon cards when he hears 'polycarp'?) ...
Mark Goodacre had a roundup of recent press coverage of the Gospel of Judas and books related thereto ... in a different vein, he also pondered the question of academics using blogs for pre-publishing purposes ...
Philip Harland has made available a couple more articles on religions in the early empire ...
At the Stoa, Tom Elliott informed us of the online existence of his APA paper on the Pleiades Project ... there was also an interesting item on the Integration Proclamation ...
Nikolaos at Tropaion writes about a BBC documentary about Nero (with a clip, of course) ...
Also on the Biblioblogging front, Tyler Williams put together an incredible carnival of the best of the Biblical Studies blogs' posts from the past year (yes, year) ...
Elsewhere, over at LanguageHat there was a post on a translation dispute from 404 A.D. ... also on the linguablog front, Language Log noted the word of the year is plutoed ...
The second issue of Iris is now available apparently (I hope there are plans for making some real content available online ) ...
Explorator 9.38 has been posted at Yahoo ... we'll get to our Ancient World on Television listings later today ... and hopefully we'll get a snow day to do these sorts of things at a more leisurely pace tomorrow a.m.!
As often, N.S. Gill starts us off, this week with features about Octavian's 'first settlement' (note in passing: the second series of Rome, which begins tonight, has a different/older guy playing Octavian) ... and one on Crossing the Rubicon ... she also links to an interesting Latin tutorial aimed at folks who who are looking at assorted document type things ....
Kristian Minck was looking at some 'carvings' of land transportation vehicles here and here ...
Adrian Murdoch tells us about a British sitcom called Chelmsford 123 (set in Roman Britain ... opening credits on YouTube) ... he also had comments on the Rome as USA analogies that are taking up too much space in newspapers of late ...
Glaukopis had a number of media-related items to note (including a reading of I,Claudius)
Michael Gilleland was his usual busy self, blogging on such various topics as the Sphinx and the Sphincter ... Classical Bravery ... various translations of Catullus 31 ... the Law of the Increasing Members (which isn't what it sounds like) ...
In a pair of posts, Irene Hahn was tracking down info on Agrippina the Younger ... and here ...
Similarly, Mary Beard ...
Nicholas Swift (at Nestor's Cup) comments on Callimachus' views on Quality v. Quantity ...
The Antiquarian had a very nice sardonyx cameo of Athena ... and some photos of a Roman bronze from the Toledo Museum of Art ...
Andrew Criddle guest blogging at Hypotyposeis had a post on Epiphany and Polycarp (am I the only one who thinks of Pokemon cards when he hears 'polycarp'?) ...
Mark Goodacre had a roundup of recent press coverage of the Gospel of Judas and books related thereto ... in a different vein, he also pondered the question of academics using blogs for pre-publishing purposes ...
Philip Harland has made available a couple more articles on religions in the early empire ...
At the Stoa, Tom Elliott informed us of the online existence of his APA paper on the Pleiades Project ... there was also an interesting item on the Integration Proclamation ...
Nikolaos at Tropaion writes about a BBC documentary about Nero (with a clip, of course) ...
Also on the Biblioblogging front, Tyler Williams put together an incredible carnival of the best of the Biblical Studies blogs' posts from the past year (yes, year) ...
Elsewhere, over at LanguageHat there was a post on a translation dispute from 404 A.D. ... also on the linguablog front, Language Log noted the word of the year is plutoed ...
The second issue of Iris is now available apparently (I hope there are plans for making some real content available online ) ...
Explorator 9.38 has been posted at Yahoo ... we'll get to our Ancient World on Television listings later today ... and hopefully we'll get a snow day to do these sorts of things at a more leisurely pace tomorrow a.m.!