Let's see what's in the aggregators this week:
NS Gill offers us some variations on Herodotus' account of Thermopylae ... in response to what was being put in various press accounts, she also commented on the ancient Persians owning slaves ... more thoughts on 300 ... there was also a nice feature on St. Patrick ...
Adrian Murdoch is pondering the Antonine Wall thing (why torture yourself AM?) ... he also reviews the Corvus Corax group ...
At Campus Mawrtius (which I've missed for a while for some reason), Dennis was pondering Samuel Butler ... Eric is working through Horace's Odes 2 ...
Glaukopis was marking the Ides ...
Troels Myrup has some photos of the in-progress Acropolis Museum ...
Michael Gilleland tells us about the sexiness of grammar ... and licorice has a Greek etymology (!) ...
Irene Hahn has some interesting gladiatorial items ... comments on the Roman amphitheatre in Nero's time ...
JM had a very useful Ides of March post ...
Folks might be interested in an NPR interview with Ruth Downie, author of Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Ed Flinn continues to post his coin collection (Latin teachers take note!)...
Laura Gibbs has a brief roundup this week ...
Ginny Lindzey found her missing Latin Workshop notes ...
Magister Patricius is pondering Acme and Septimius ...
Ray Howell gets the Roman Scholars treatment ...
Mary Beard was finding parallels between Commodus and the Stasi ...
Eurylochus recounts some post-horse events ...
The US-as-Rome comparisons this week seem to be giving way to comparisons of the 300 to the US-Iran hostility (see N.S. Gill above) ... for example in the Tribune ... ABC pondered whether Bush was Leonidas or Xerxes ...
If you're not Thermopylaed out, Jona Lendering has a nice page on the 'metamorphosis' of the myth ... the History Channel has a nice short video on the battle (excerpted from the Decisive Battles series) ... Barry Strauss' article on Thermopylae (2004) for Military History Quarterly is also worth looking at ... [hat tip to RB on the Imperial Rome list for mentioning those this week]
There have been some updates at the Centuries of Darkness website ...
The first issue of Classics@ has been updated and revised ...
The New Jersey Classics Association's Spring 2007 newsletter is available ...
My feed just resumed (for reasons unknown) for Father Foster's audio at Father Coulter's site ... since I've missed at least three weeks, we'll just direct you to Father Coulter's site ...
If you're trying to keep up with all the Jesus Family Tomb stuff, Mark Goodacre's NT Gateway seems to be catching most of the important stuff ... also worth checking out is the debate going on in the SBL Forum ... it would be useful if some Classical epigraphy types could comment on Stephen Pfann's interpretation there of the so-called Mariamne inscription (it does look like a kai to me, but I have no auctoritas) ...
Other than that, we've posted issue 9.47 of our Explorator newsletter ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will follow later tonight ...
NS Gill offers us some variations on Herodotus' account of Thermopylae ... in response to what was being put in various press accounts, she also commented on the ancient Persians owning slaves ... more thoughts on 300 ... there was also a nice feature on St. Patrick ...
Adrian Murdoch is pondering the Antonine Wall thing (why torture yourself AM?) ... he also reviews the Corvus Corax group ...
At Campus Mawrtius (which I've missed for a while for some reason), Dennis was pondering Samuel Butler ... Eric is working through Horace's Odes 2 ...
Glaukopis was marking the Ides ...
Troels Myrup has some photos of the in-progress Acropolis Museum ...
Michael Gilleland tells us about the sexiness of grammar ... and licorice has a Greek etymology (!) ...
Irene Hahn has some interesting gladiatorial items ... comments on the Roman amphitheatre in Nero's time ...
JM had a very useful Ides of March post ...
Folks might be interested in an NPR interview with Ruth Downie, author of Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Ed Flinn continues to post his coin collection (Latin teachers take note!)...
Laura Gibbs has a brief roundup this week ...
Ginny Lindzey found her missing Latin Workshop notes ...
Magister Patricius is pondering Acme and Septimius ...
Ray Howell gets the Roman Scholars treatment ...
Mary Beard was finding parallels between Commodus and the Stasi ...
Eurylochus recounts some post-horse events ...
The US-as-Rome comparisons this week seem to be giving way to comparisons of the 300 to the US-Iran hostility (see N.S. Gill above) ... for example in the Tribune ... ABC pondered whether Bush was Leonidas or Xerxes ...
If you're not Thermopylaed out, Jona Lendering has a nice page on the 'metamorphosis' of the myth ... the History Channel has a nice short video on the battle (excerpted from the Decisive Battles series) ... Barry Strauss' article on Thermopylae (2004) for Military History Quarterly is also worth looking at ... [hat tip to RB on the Imperial Rome list for mentioning those this week]
There have been some updates at the Centuries of Darkness website ...
The first issue of Classics@ has been updated and revised ...
The New Jersey Classics Association's Spring 2007 newsletter is available ...
My feed just resumed (for reasons unknown) for Father Foster's audio at Father Coulter's site ... since I've missed at least three weeks, we'll just direct you to Father Coulter's site ...
If you're trying to keep up with all the Jesus Family Tomb stuff, Mark Goodacre's NT Gateway seems to be catching most of the important stuff ... also worth checking out is the debate going on in the SBL Forum ... it would be useful if some Classical epigraphy types could comment on Stephen Pfann's interpretation there of the so-called Mariamne inscription (it does look like a kai to me, but I have no auctoritas) ...
Other than that, we've posted issue 9.47 of our Explorator newsletter ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will follow later tonight ...