Pompeii


Links for the Week of 3 March

Summer

History

Recreations

Events

Archaeology

Resources

Literature

Classics in the News


Links for the Week of 10 February

Summer Opportunities

UT-Austin is offering its Intensive Summer Greek course again: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/classics/courses/Summer.php

The Vergilian Society has a variety of trips and classes available for the summer: http://www.vergil.clarku.edu/cumae.htm

Ascanius’s LatinSummer program is open for applications for students in grades 1-7: http://www.ascaniusyci.org/latinsummer/ (There’s one in Amherst, MA, as well as sites in VA, SC, and MO.) (via @etclassics and Ascanius)
Conventiculum Bostoniense runs from 27 July to 4 August: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/conventiculum_bostoniense/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter (via @apaclassics)
UGA Classics Summer Institute: http://rogueclassicism.com/2013/02/07/ed-ugaclassics-summer-institute-2013/ (via @etclassics and @rogueclassicist)
Excavation in Umbria: http://quemdixerechaos.com/2013/01/14/romarch-roman-period-archaeological-field-school-in-umbria-vicus-ad-martis/ (via @rogueclassicist)

Archaeological News and Links

A gold wreath was found in a Greek subway: http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-gold-wreath-found-in-greek-subway-130207.htm (via @Archaeology365)
Pompeii updates: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/good-news-and-bad-for-pompeii/?partner=rss&emc=rss (via @tronchin)
Roman air pollution: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Air-Pollution-Has-Been-a-Problem-Since-the-Days-of-Ancient-Rome-187936271.html?device=ipad (via @c_katsari)

City of Rome

Culture Week in Rome has been canceled: https://saverome.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/culture-week-canceled/ (via @AIRomanCulture)

Maps and Reconstructions

Roman hairstyles recreated: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324900204578286272195339456.html (via @DrKillgrove et al.)
An album played on the lyre: http://www.reverbnation.com/store/view_item_album/artist_1132710?item_id=1718745 (via @AncientLyre)
Maps of the travels of Odysseus (click on the map on the page linked to for more): http://hehasawifeyouknow.tumblr.com/post/42424998856/ever-wonder-where-odysseus-travels-took-him (via @ancientblogger)
An article on new mapping of the Roman Empire: http://romanarcheo.blogspot.com/2013/02/getting-measure-of-ancient-rome.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter (via @jntribolo)
Pictures of other artifacts from Antikythera: http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-antikythera-wreck-photos.html?spref=tw (via @DorothyKing)
A digital reconstruction of a Roman silver dish: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274073/Fine-dining-Roman-style-Archaeologists-digitally-reconstruct-ornate-plate-fragments-buried-Scottish-hillside-1-500-years-ago.html#axzz2KPUWDqCr (via @DorothyKing)

Caesar

A free copy of a Latomus article on Caesar and topography: http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2010/03/caesars-battle-descriptions-and-the-defeat-of-ariovistus/ historyancient

Statistics

SAT score news, with break outs by language: http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/cb-seniors-2012 (via @mamacheatham @magisterstevens)

Survey

A survey for teachers who use Ecce Romani: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ecceromani (via @KatyReddick)

Charity

Three authors, dressed as Roman soldiers, are walking Hadrian’s Wall for Doctors without Borders and Combat Stress: http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/benkane


Links for the week of 3 February

An opinion piece from the New York Times about the difficulties of translation: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/the-treachery-of-translators/
A recipe for an ancient Greek and Roman pork dish: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/8421220674/ (via @carolemadge)
A piece from the New Yorker on memorizing poetry: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/why-we-should-memorize.html?mobify=0 (via @bretmulligan)
Information about the excavations at Portus: http://www.portusproject.org/ (via @stephenjohnkay)
The British Library is crowdsourcing a project to match up old maps with modern Google Earth ones: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20&%20heritage/art417833 (via @Culture24)
The AIRC is offering academic credit for summer and semester programs of study in Rome: http://saverome.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/study-abroad-with-airc-cal-state-fresno-offers-school-of-record-to-airc-programs/ (via @etclassics)
Last Tuesday, you learned what two teachers have in their bags. This is what an archaeologist has: https://saverome.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/whats-in-an-archaeologist-bag/ (via @AIRomanCulture)
Current events in Ancient Greek: http://akropolis-world-news.weebly.com (via @DHSBClassics)
A list of things for children to do around Naples and Pompeii: http://flavias.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/12-tasks-for-kids-on-bay-of-naples.html (via @CarolineLawrenc)
Pompeii is to be restored very soon: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/01/30/Restoration-historic-Pompeii-slated-begin-next-week_8164199.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (via @DrKillgrove)
Prize money for the best visualizations of Classical data: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/competition_visualizing_the_classics/ (via @apaclassics)
Roman Army School in Durham, UK in March: http://www.hadrianicsociety.com/page5.htm (via @rogueclassicist)
All 2012 articles in the Cambridge Journals will be available online: http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2013/01/free-access-to-all-2012-content-on-cambridge-journals-online/#.UQpoEjACfMw.twitter (via @DrKillgrove)
The APA is accepting applications for Public Fellows: http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/acls_public_fellows_program2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter (via @apaclassics)