Are there Greeks in Philadelphia?
Both these blog posts came through my RSS reader today. The question is, what's inside the real one?
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Cleobis and Biton go bowling
Another story from The Week (November 14, 2008). This one's not funny (unlike this one), but it does call to mind an interesting classical parallel: "An avid bowler from Michigan bowled his first...
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East, Rebecca: A.D. 62: Pompeii
iUniverse © 2003, 292 pages Miranda, the protagonist of Rebecca East's A.D. 62: Pompeii, is a graduate student studying classical archaeology at Harvard. It turns out that her knowledge of ancient...
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Dido is no longer online
In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the Aeneid on Facebook: http://home.comcast.net/~fuuchan/aeneidonfacebookfinal.pngI particularly like the various relationship statuses.
View ArticleBritish Library dissertation EThOS
Via History News Network, the British Library's EThOS beta is now available on-line. EThOS stands for Electronic Theses (dissertations) Online Service. Nearly all British Universities are...
View ArticleSaveguarding Zenobia/Halebiye
L.S., The city of Zenobia, said to have been founded by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, and refortified by Justinian, is now in mortal danger from a plans for a new dam on the Euphrates River. The...
View ArticleCavafy on the Emperor Julian
A splendid piece in The New Republic by the always readable Peter Green on the Daniel Mendelsohn translation of the collected poems of Constantine Cavafy. Every autodidact, someone once claimed, can be...
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Argonautica
I'm a small press publisher in the hinterland of central Ohio, and have just published a fine translation of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- 1st century AD Latin version of earlier Greek epic, now in...
View ArticleNews on the Antikythera Mechanism
L.S., From Hewlett Packard: "The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient astronomical computer built by the Greeks around 80 B.C. It was found on a shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900, and its exact...
View ArticleMonopoly power warning
Reposted from Ancient World Bloggers Group (posted by Charles Ellwood Jones). It's certainly distressing but perhaps also a serious warning of the power of a monopoly that aspires to be the digital...
View ArticleLady linguists
I just ran across the strangest comment in How and Wells' Commentary on Herodotus (now available for the Kindle for $1.59!). At 4.114 Herodotus is writing about how these Amazon women were in...
View ArticleJoyful Latin Learning
_From: A New Weblog Announces Itself_ “Joyful Latin Learning” is the theme of “Tres Columnae” (our working title), which aims to be everyone’s home on the Web for (you guessed it!) Joyful Latin...
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Malouf, David: Ransom
Pantheon, 240 pages1st published: 2009Note: Review copy received from publisher. Amazon affiliate: Links pointing to Amazon contain my affiliate ID. Sales resulting from clicks on those links will earn...
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Billows, Richard A.: Marathon
Overlook Press, 304 pages1st published: 2010 Note: Review copy received from publisher. Amazon affiliate: Links pointing to Amazon contain my affiliate ID. Sales resulting from clicks on those links...
View ArticleHerodotus news!
I haven't updated here in a while, but I wanted to share the happy news that my book Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History will be...
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Ancient history on a Kindle near you!
I've written a roughly 50-page piece called The Mutilation of the Herms: Unpacking an Ancient Mystery that I've just self-published for the Kindle. It's about an event that occurred in Athens in 415...
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The Mutilation of the Herms in paperback! Also, examination copies
The paperback of my self-published booklet The Mutilation of the Herms: Unpacking an Ancient Mystery is now good to go! It's available already on CreateSpace.com, and it will be available on Amazon...
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Win a copy of Reading Herodotus!
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