Dear Members, I have made avialable a color image and a diagram of the fragment of the pre-Severian marble plan (architectual) depicting the Forum of Augustus...
My Classics consultant responds with an excerpt. Interesting . . . "Ganymede is the young, beautiful boy that became one of Zeus' lovers. One source of the...
Regarding Zeus and Ganymede - that was his only long lasting affair; those with women were usually just one night stands. From the Argonautica I get the...
Archaeology is a necessary science The San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2007 Cal Day brings over 35,000 community members to the Berkeley campus every...
Greetings, October's catalogue of newest arrivals includes over 150 titles. This month's attached list of titles have been posted for sale under the Recent...
Alot of this relates to stuff I'm reading about in "The Grass Crown". Interesting that something like this could happen so late in the Republic, indeed well...
[feltre.org] The Apology of Socrates The Chicago Humanities Festival will present a one-man theatrical performance by Emmy-winner Yannis Simonides of Socrates'...
Rome had out-grown it's city-constitution. The Italians, Latins and Romans caused the citizen population to trible giving Rome that extra force they needed to...
Like the Superindtendant nothing suprises me. Another great Roman monument the Pont du Gard has a lot of graffitit some of it dated in the ninteenth century...
The Grass crown is a very entertaining book and provied you remember that McCullough uses her imagination to fill in gaps in the historical record informative....
I tend to think that the political system of Rome was such that a single battle, though decisive loss it was, couldn't have eventually caused the downfall of...
Greece to create Alexander the Great museum Agence France-Presse, September 28, 2007 Greece will dedicate a museum to Alexander the Great in the northern town...
[about.com] Day of the Barbarians For those non-specialists who want a clear look at the background and probable events at the Battle of Adrianople or the...
I'm not as wholly positive as my friend N.S. Gill, but it is still a book worth reading as long as you apply the proverbial grain of salt. But with her, I do...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/no-regrets-for-colleen-mccullough/2007/10/09/1191695905319.html www.theage.com.au ARTS BOOKS EPICURE FILM MUSIC ...
Ancient world treasure unearthed BBC, 4 October 2007 After seven hot summers of digging, an Italian archaeological team believe they have discovered one of the...
Hmm. I would contend that Augustus' date of accession was not 27BCE - he had already been in charge of half the Roman state for at least a decade before that,...
Well of course the problem with dating Augustus coming to power was the gradual accretion of powers. You can be certain that after Marcus Antonius death he was...
Having just arrived back from Naples I have to say that the Villa Poppea at Oplontis was absolutely amazing. Not suprisingly being an Imperial Villa the...
Here are the first few I have put up on my Flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauiscaecilius/?saved=1 If you have any trouble with the link.please...
Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts The Washington Post, October 7, 2007 On Saturday, huge cranes will begin lifting ancient statues,...
Dear Robert, Dear all, Another very interesting things about the site is the demonstration of religious 'continuity' and usurpation. Already signalled in 2006...
