Nice slide show of Etruscan treasures

Slide Show

Eagle of the Ninth to be filmed

Newsbites: The Greco-Roman edition!
1. Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) will start shooting The Eagle of the Ninth in August; the film concerns “a wounded Roman soldier and his loyal Celtic slave who try to solve the mystery of the Ninth Legion, a brigade of Roman soldiers that vanished after [...]

Medieval recycling – or robbing Roman walls

Medieval News
Archaeologists in Gloucester have unearthed evidence that recycling is not just a twenty-first century idea. An archaeological investigation in the centre of the city has discovered that medieval settlers used parts of a Roman wall to construct buildings.
Gloucestershire County Council’s archaeology team is exploring the area where Kimbrose Triangle meets Southgate Street before work [...]

2,200-year-old bronze statue fished up

Yahoo news
ATHENS, Greece – A Greek fisherman must have been expecting a monster of a catch when he brought up his nets in the Aegean Sea last week. Instead, Greek authorities say his haul was a section of a 2,200-year-old bronze statue of a horseman.
A Culture Ministry announcement said Monday the accidental find was made [...]

Lysistrata parallels

Thanks to Rogue Classicism/Explorator, a whole list of modern Lysistrata parallels.
http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/great-sex-strikes-thru-history/

Heston’s Roman Feast

Someone is asking about Heston’s Roman Feast.
Try this.

Pacific Rim comes to London

Rogue Classicism has details of an interesting0looking conference in July, and on our own doorstep.

*Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009: “Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature”
University College London, 7–9 July 2009 (Archaeology Lecture Theatre)*
It is a great pleasure to announce that the annual Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar 2009 will be coming to London this [...]

Message from Alan Chadwick.

This message is from Alan Chadwick. (I am handing over this blog to a colleague, and am concentrating on a personal blog, in which I am hoping to record my thoughts, feelings and experiences while facing terminal cancer. This the URL: http://streetinsomerset.blogspot.com/)

Hi David,
Sorry, I’ve not been keeping as up-to-date with your blog as I ought, [...]

A Roman Diet Question

About.com usually provides pretty reliable information, so people may find this useful.

Friday March 27, 2009
At least that’s how I chose to read it. People have started asking me questions on Twitter instead of via email, so I can’t claim this is an email question:
Do you have any suggested reading on diet [...]

Seneca’s Oedipus to be staged

From Leigh Valley

Moravian College works with Touchstone Theatre
School receives outside assistance to stage Roman version of classic tragedy “Oedipus.”
Saturday, March 28, 2009
By ADAM RICHTER
The Express-Times
Christopher Shorr thinks the nation could use a healthy dose of Roman theater.
Shorr, a visiting assistant professor of English at Moravian College who runs the school’s theater department, says the visceral [...]