Great Photos of Vinkovci’s Roman Vessels

From Current World Archaeology: More pictures of the Roman silver vessels recently discovered in Vinkovci, Croatia, have been sent to CWA by Geoarheo, the commercial unit that excavated the hoard. ‘The location of the silver hoard itself was fortunate as it was found in the few square meters of the entire site that remained untouched [...]

Classics Blog List

Some may see this new icon on my blog: This is a side project I am working on and it may be of interest to some of my colleagues out there (and if so, please contact me).  More details will be forthcoming soon.

40 Best Blogs for Classics Geeks

From last year but still a great resource.  Glad to see my friend David Meadows is featured! Antiquity continues to impact today’s cultural, political, linguistic, artistic and philosophical climate, so it makes perfect sense that history buffs scramble to study the melange of civilizations that characterized the era. Digital archivists especially enjoy cataloging the past [...]

Classics Content Coming Soon

Yes, yes, I know.  You’re confused.  It is okay.  I will explain. Since I am (finally) starting in a Classics program in the fall, I will be turning over some of the focus of this blog to the discussion of Classical civilization, Greek, and Latin.  While I will not relinquish my status as a biblioblogger [...]

An Outstanding New Resource: ORBIS!

How amazing is this?!  Stanford set up this little node which allows you to calculate the time it would take to travel ANYWHERE in the Roman world! It not only measures the faster route, and in what manner of travel, but the shortest and the cheapest.  And it calculates price!  It is an amazing resource.  [...]

Jeff Daniels (as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain) Recites Some of Lucan’s ‘Pharsalia’

Combining two of my favorite subjects: the American Civil War and Classics.  

November Biblical Studies Carnival: The Undead Edition

Ghouls, Friends, and cauldron-stirring colleagues, welcome to the November Biblical Studies Carnival. May you find your stay…frightfully fun… so you may never want to leave! Yes, you guessed it, we are celebrated the month of October in a hauntingly spectacular way. Let us now turn our attention to the Carnival… I’m sure you’re just dying [...]

The Walking Undead: Ghost Stories and Hauntings from the Ancient World

In light of this festive part of the year (Halloween is my favorite holiday!), I have decided to make a little post highlighting some of the best scary stories from antiquity into a short post.  Suspend disbelief–these stories are not historically true, but imagine…imagine if they were… how might you find yourself acting in a [...]

Defining Mythicism: Ovid Never Exiled

Seems that Classics has its own version of mythicism.  According to this source: Then there’s another theory that has bounced around scholars for the last century or so: Ovid never was exiled. The main reason for this theory is that the only record of it is Ovid’s, except for “dubious” mentions by Pliny the Elder [...]

Loeb Texts to be Digitized!

This is awesome news! But Thomas and his fellow trustees of the Loeb Classical Library — a 515-volume series of essential Latin and Greek texts with their English translations — are hoping to make things a little easier for non-classicists to mine the literature of the ancients. Along with the Harvard University Press, which publishes [...]