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)