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inscription of Augustus, Res Gestae, Ankara; photo J. Long 1994

9 November 2009, Remains of Minoan-style wall painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

8 November 2009, 60 British state primaries institute Latin in compulsory-language program

3 November 2009, Claude Levi-Strauss, founder of structuralism, dies aged 100

2 November 2009, Cyprus Feline Society attempts to establish two indigenous breeds, Aphrodite and Helen

20 October 2009, They have built it: the new Acropolis Museum challenges the British Museum to return the Parthenon's "Elgin Marbles"

  • Link to news coverage by Sylvia Poggioli for NPR, with photographs
  • Link to computer-animated film and website The Parthenon by USC Institute for Creative Technologies
  • Link to 2008 article about exploration and reconstruction of the Parthenon under the direction of Manolis Korres, in Smithsonian Magazine
  • Link to website for the position-statement of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture concerning the return of the Marbles
  • Link to position-statement of the British Museum concerning the return of the Marbles
  • Link to other coverage of the new museum gathered here 20 June 2009

15 October 2009, Quarry near Knossos identified as original of the Labyrinth

  • Link to news coverage by The Independent
  • Link to news coverage and blog discussion in the Mail Online
  • Link to news coverage in Telegraph.co.uk
  • Not Knossos, but Loyola: article in The Phoenix about the reduced-Chartres labyrinth being created behind the Crown Center by the Medieval Studies Center with Hillel and the Student Environmental Alliance

14 October 2009, Cultural marketing for Bulgaria includes support for archaeological research

  • Link to news coverage by AFP
  • Link to announcement of the America for Bulgaria Foundation's call for proposals for their International Collaborative Archaeological and Biological Research Program in the CEERES eBulletin
  • Link to announcement of the America Foundation for Bulgaria's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeology at the America Foundation for Bulgaria's website

5 October 2009, Classical philologist Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones dies

29 September 2009, Rotating dining-room of Nero's Golden House confirmed

  • Link to news coverage, with photographs, by the Associated Press
  • Link to AP video on YouTube
  • Link to news coverage by ANSA.it
  • Link to news coverage with photos, video, commentary, and blog in Mail Online, a publication of the Daily Mail
  • Link to discussion of the Domus Aurea in Platner and Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929), courtesy of Lacus Curtius
  • Link to article about Nero by Herbert W. Benario in De Imperatoribus Romanis
  • Link to collected images of the Domus Aurea in Maecenas
  • Link to introduction for an exhibition of plates from the eighteenth-century portfolio Vestigia delle Terme di Tito, presenting information from excavations of the Domus Aurea, 6 May - 13 July 2008 at the National Museum in Warsaw; click on thumbnails to see images of several plates

24 September 2009, Big, unique hoard of 7c Anglo-Saxon gold declared treasure

  • Link to news coverage by the BBC News, featuring photograph of gold strip with Latin Biblical inscription in uncial characters
  • Link to news coverage by The Guardian, with video (thanks to Theresa Gross-Diaz)
  • Link to the hoard's website
  • Link to Portable Antiquities Scheme, which publishes a summary of the 1996 Treasure Act and press statements, video, and static images of many treasure finds
  • Link to image and discussion of the inscribed gold strip on flickr
  • Link to a whole collection of images from the hoard on flickr
  • Link to 26 September 2009 comment on the Latinity of the inscription and blog responses in Times Online (thanks again to Theresa)
  • Link to text of Alexander Pope's A Little Learning

20 September 2009, 24-hour Roman Reconstruction Project to be performed in Austin, Texas

  • Link to news coverage in artdaily.org
  • Link to press release from the performance site, Arthouse, including links to timeline for the project, 26 September 2009, and to Arthouse's blog, which in turn can take you to information about related events
  • Link to 10 April 2009 Arts Beat coverage by The New York Times, with video, of the New York performance
  • Link to interview with Liz Glynn, and photographs, published 4 May 2009 by Archaeology

9 September 2009, Largest cache ever found of coins from period of the Bar-Kokhba revolt of Jews against Rome

1 September 2009, New fragment found of the world's oldest existing Christian bible

31 August 2009, Meditations on the cultural impact of the Greek invention of coinage

  • Link to blog commentary in Seeking alpha
  • Link to essay by Richard Seaford in the 17 June 2009 Times Literary Supplement, to which David Warsh refers
  • Introduction to the earliest Greek coinage, from the British Museum, with images and links to discussions of individual examples

25 August 2009, Greek wildfires spare temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous and Marathon Archaeological Museum

  • Link to news coverage in Bloomberg.com
  • Quelling of the fires: link to 25 August news coverage, with photograps, by the Associated Press
  • Fighting fires: link to 24 August news coverage, with photograps, by the Associated Press
  • Political fallout: link to comment, including link to news coverage of 2007 fires in the Peloponnese, by The Guardian.

17 August 2009, Vandal-period and Ottoman remains uncovered in Algiers by subway excavation

30 July 2009, University of Padua team maps buried Roman and pre-Roman trading city Altinum

  • Link to news coverage in ScienceNOW, with photo, plan, and links to 31 July publication in Science magazine
  • Link to news coverage in the Los Angeles Times
  • Link to commentary with additional links and images in Ogle Earth

24 July 2009, Silvio Berlusconi boasts of having found 30 ancient tombs on his Sardinian estate

6-7 July 2009,    British Library conference addresses the Codex Sinaiticus, 5c ms of the Christian Bible, now published for viewing on-line

2 July 2009, Cleveland Museum returns 14 stolen Classical and Medieval artworks to Italy

20 June 2009,    New Acropolis Museum opens in Athens

8 June 2009, The unread text (still) says it all: the Phaistos Disk

1 June 2009, Paint-ball attack on the Ara Pacis Museum

  • Link to news coverage by ANSA.it
  • Link to website of the Museo dell'Ara Pacis, where links present the history of the ancient monument and its modern re-monumentalization, including Photogallery of details, and links to the other Musei in comune
  • Link to Mary Anne Sullivan's 2006 image gallery with historical and art-historical notes, from Bluffton University
  • Link to images, history, and commentary on the Ara Pacis Augustae by William Thayer in Lacus Curtius

30 May 2009, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the University of Edinburgh, and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis make the Roman lituus (also Bach's) sound again

26 May 2009, 4000-year-old skeleton offers confirmation of theories for the origin and transmission of leprosy

14 May 2009, Ubi minime exspectas: Classics professor's protest against Latin diplomata recurs to Latin in less likely places

  • Link to editorial in the New York Times
  • Link to discussion on the City Room blog of the New York Times, picking up from comment of 9 June 2008
  • Link to observations of In Rebus, a website devoted to the use of Latin in contemporary popular culture

13 May 2009, Two Notre Dame professors teach Classical and post-Classical classics to the homeless

6 May 2009, Exhibit "Zeiträume – Miletus in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity" at the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin

29 April 2009, Lysistrata lives ... in Kenya

  • Link to news report of sex strike against political infighting in Kenya, from the BBC (thanks to John Murray)
  • Link to discussion on TPM Blog

23 April 2009, Love that Classical Tradition: Ingrid Rowland reviews study of eighteenth-century Dilettanti

16 April 2009, Egyptian archaeologists claim to find Cleopatra's tomb

  • Link to news report in the Times Online
  • Link to news report by CNN.com
  • Link to Geo Quiz on PRI's The World, whose answer includes a link to interview with lead archaeologist Zahi Hawass
  • Related story: the national tourist board of Turkey has announced the discovery of the burial place of Cleopatra's sister Arsinoe: travel news posted 31 March 2009 by Opodo

6 April 2009, Earthquake strikes central Italy

  • Update 9 April: toll rises to 287, news report by The Associated Press
  • Link to report on problems of historic landmark preservation in Italy, with links to photo-gallery of earthquake damage in L'Aquila and Onna, USA Today
  • Link to news coverage of neglected, indeed repulsed, seismological warnings, The Telegraph
  • Link to report on damage to the Baths of Caracalla at Rome, as well as in L'Aquila, The Telegraph

24 March 2009, Update on Onassis Cultural Center exhibit

23 March 2009, 2c BC bronze equestrian statue fished out of Mediterranean

17 March 2009, New "Archaeology Czar" and 37 million Euro plan to address neglect of archaeological treasures in Rome and Ostia

9 March 2009, Italian computer scientists reconstruct sound of ancient Greek stringed instrument, the epigonion

23 February 2009, Iraq Museum re-opens

22 February 2009, Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary

18 February 2009, Novelist Lindsey Davis's Top Ten books on ancient Rome

  • Link to feature article in The Guardian
  • Link to Lindsey Davis's website, with a wonderful dynamic graffiti inset and additional links

14 February 2009, Devin Johnston, "After Sappho"

  • Some say flashing metal, some say fire,
    others call a Sea Harrier
    in vertical ascent
    the loveliest sight
    that dark earth offers. I say
    whatever you love most.

    Everybody knows—every day
    some Helen leaves her husband, home,
    and daughter, to board a train that's bound
    for Shreveport or Cheyenne

    —led astray, I almost said

    but that she steps
    so lightly down.
    Which brings to mind Elena—
    she's not here.

    I'd rather catch her eye
    across the shop
    counter than watch
    a full squadron rise
    by vectored thrust
    above the dunes.
  • Not exactly news, perhaps, but it was Valentine's Day I happened to read a review that quoted the poem: link to November 2008 Poetry

6 February 2009, Possibly ancient Syriac bible found in Cyprus

2 February 2009, Remembering the murex-snail

29 January 2009, Perseus Project receives NEH grant to research methods of automatically analyzing ancient languages

14 January 2009, Chemical warfare, Dura-Europus, Syria, AD 256

11 January 2009, American Society of Papyrologists honors James G. Keenan

  • Link to home page of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, of which the Festscrift volume is number 45 (2008)
  • Link to homepage of the American Society of Papyrologists
  • Link to article briefly introducing some of the interest of research in papyrological documents: notes of an interview with Todd Hickey, editor of the Festschrift and a successor of Dr. Keenan in relationship with the University of California at Berkeley's collection of papyri, in Illuminations, Berkeley's on-line magazine of research in the arts and humanities, August 2002

29 December 2008, Ancient latrine re-opens in Tralleis, Aydin, Turkey

  • Link to news coverage in Hurriyet Daily News
  • Link to photograph of the latrine, seen in Google Earth, from Panoramio
  • Link to a selection concerning public latrines in the ancient Roman world and images of them (specifically, Ostia's Caupona of the Seven Sages) from John Clark, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans, from Google BookSearch Beta
  • Link to a brief account of Roman latrines, with photographs and further links, in Lacus Curtius
  • Link to index-compilation of websites and further information on Sewer History by Jon Schladweiler, Historian of the Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association

25 December 2008, Christmastime coverage of St. Nicholas of Myra

8 December 2008,    Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens at Onassis Cultural Center, New York, 9 December 2008-9 May 2009

5 December 2008, New research on ancient climate change

3 December 2008, Late Roman-Byzantine-medieval historian Peter Brown and historian of early India Romila Thapar to receive Kluge Prize

2 December 2008, Hadrian's succession as a model for President-Elect Obama?

  • Link to commentary by NPR correspondent and current Nieman Fellow Guy Raz
  • Link to Herbert W. Benario, "Hadrian," at De Imperatoribus Romanis, the on-line encyclopedia of Roman emperors
  • Link to ancient biography of Hadrian in the Historia Augusta, translated by David Magie, presented online courtesy of Lacus Curtius
  • Link to highlights of the British Museum exhibit Hadrian: Emperor and Conflict, 24 July - 26 October 2008
  • Link to Great Buildings Online's images and commentary on Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

1 December 2008, Roman law invoked in California water-use suit

20 November 2008, Auction of ancient Roman to modern coins attests growth of certification business

19 November 2008, Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury Warrior Resilience Conference includes performance and discussion of scenes from Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes

Other links to the more Classical blogosphere

Revised 16 November 2009 by jlong1@luc.edu.

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