April 2012 Archeology - Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Classics

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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

The Romans had celebrity recruiters for their army, apparently:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ro...eb-120330.html

A sanctuary of Asklepios:
http://www.asianage.com/newsmakers/g...-sanctuary-492

A Hellenistic/Roman cemetery from Thessaloniki:
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/54479

The first floor of the Stoa of Attalos has opened to the public:
http://ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_art...03/2012_434797

A big Juno is revealed in Boston:
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04...c6L/story.html

Ten best emperors?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...-best-emperors

Some Roman-era finds from Sozopol:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138127

A Kore turned up in a goat pen in Greece:
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=54454

... and later turned out to be a forgery:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/eur...red_a_forgery/

Rome doesn't want those faux gladiators messing with tourists, it seems:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149674...nic-gladiators

... that was last week; this week, the gladiators turned to protest:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...limb-Colosseum

Archaeology is Greece's 'Achilles heel' right now, it seems:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w...04/2012_436567

... and Pompeii is getting an infusion of cash:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17634115

... and Italy has plans for other sites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/wo...t-pompeii.html

Feature on sword and sandal flicks:
http://news.moviefone.com/jason-apuz...b_1401721.html

... in a similar vein:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/c...mythology.html

Mary Beard's day:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Busi...d-03042012.htm

... and she was playing with the Sortes Vergilianae:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_...rgilianae.html

Are the Elgin Marbles special?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...les-so-special

... while Stephen Fry advocates for their return:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...marbles-greece

The charioteer of Mozia is coming to London:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/artic...o-London/26280

Interview with Madeline Miller:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2...deline-miller/

What Robert Woolverton is up to:
http://nems360.com/pages/full_story/...es_left_column

Latest Ancient Art podcast is on the Apollo Sauroktonos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZ77...54d0y5E-bifvU=

Dalhousie's version of the Pythian Games:
http://www.dal.ca/news/2012/03/20/a-...ian-games.html

Review of Jennifer T. Roberts, *Herodotus*:
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/herod...nnifer-roberts

Review of *Song of Achilles*:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504367_1...deline-miller/

Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Roman coins from Ripley:
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Tr...ail/story.html

Roman coins from Bath:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17480016

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Greek and Byzantine finds from Alexandria:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCont...n-Alexand.aspx

Santorini is (finally) reopening for tourists:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w...04/2012_437527

Funding for Hadrian’s Wall:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-17669732

Feature on Epiacum:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...1634-30748979/

Slideshow of recent Roman and Iron Age finds from a Cambridge dig:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home...e-13042012.htm

OpEd on Roman anti-semitism:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ar...7#.T4qb3NlmPDM

What Thomas Winter is up to:
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/c...tion-1.2728560

Hype for Mary Beard’s ‘Meet the Romans’:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home...e-12042012.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSB-kRfyWD4

… and Classics Confidential interviewed Dr Beard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ASBFU8ivg

Hype for Bettany Hughes’ ‘Divine Women’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...Antiquity.html

Honours for Joshua Katz:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/04/11/30576/

Daniel Mendelsohn takes an Odyssey cruise:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/t..._journey_.html

Ben Hur Bloopers (of the cinematic variety):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...can-you-784963

More coverage of the expulsion of the Centurions from the Colosseum and their subsequent protests:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Colosseum.html

… and some video:
http://video.corriere.it/rissa-centu...9-25a08dbe0046
http://video.corriere.it/blitz-vigil...a-22df94744509

Review of Lynda Wordwell (ed)., *The Fusion of Neo - Classical Principles*:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...314714445.html

Latest ‘Rome on the Danube’ coin:
http://news.coinupdate.com/latest-ro...auriacum-1312/

Hype for a Roman coin exhibition at Smith College:
http://www.smith.edu/video/celebrati...borations-2012

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Possibility of statue being a female gladiator/gladiatrix:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-ancient-rome/

Very interesting find of what appears to be a statue of Cleopatra’s twin kiddies:
http://news.discovery.com/history/cl...es-120420.html

Some more of the Palladion was unearthed in Athens:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012...und-in-athens/

Archaeologists are seeking a halt to church construction until a Roman fort can be checked out in Yorkshire:
http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/...rch_site_plan/

Moles are digging up Roman artifacts at Epiacum:
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...1634-30806040/

Confirmation (of sorts) of a tsunami hitting Potidaea in 479 B.C.:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-ancient-greek-tsunami.html

Nice feature on a Roman military diploma at the Israel Museum:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-br...f-roman-might/

CWR University celebrated Vergil Week:
http://cwru-daily.com/news/?p=7017

There was a marathon reading of the Iliad at Bowdoin:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives...s/009408.shtml

Honours for Judith Lynn Sebesta:
http://www.yankton.net/articles/2012...4875774233.txt

Mary Beard had a big presence this week … being interviewed:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...rday-interview

… writing about ‘pushy parents’ in ancient Rome:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17701080

… and Rome’s desperate housewives or lack thereof:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...e-x-rated.html

… and her favourite parts of Rome:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/de...dern-city.html

… and there were reviews of her ‘Meet the Romans’:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/entert...ard-tv-review/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...wo-review.html

The Greek kiln at UA was fired up again:
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/r...greek-pottery/

I think we mentioned Daniel Mendelsohn and his father’s ‘odyssey’ trip last week:
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150629...yssey-together

Some town in Turkey has actually trademarked Veni, Vidi, Vici:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ven...&NewsCatID=341

*The Swerve* won a Pulitzer:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...ward-1.3664641

Hype for the Homer Encyclopedia:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-fhe041712.php

We’re hearing about Roman theme parks again:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/mi...881/story.html

The Olympias won’t be at the Olympics (so far):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6d3c20c6-8...#axzz1sQPJjsGT

Feature on the Romosexuality conference:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.u...ode=419679&c=1

Review of Christian Cameron, *God of War* [novel]:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2403728/

Review of Susan Allen, *Classical Spies*:
http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13491/54859

More on revolting gladiators:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...?newsfeed=true

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Remains of a temple in Messinia:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012...d-in-messinia/

A very complete Roman shipwreck from off the shore of Trapani:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ro...ng-120425.html

An erotic vase find from Bulgaria:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n276285

Resuming the search for a Laodicea temple:
http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-cult...aodicea-temple

Potential for a Roman suburb find in Northampton:
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/ne...burb-1-3785282

Plans for Cirencester’s Roman amphitheatre:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-17839762

Another wall collapse at Pompeii:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...nitiative.html

Interesting oped on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in European art:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...ropean-artists

Slideshow of the ‘first Olympic hotel’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17841415

Latest Classics program in peril is at UPitt:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2...three-programs

What Anne Carson is up to:
http://www.biconews.com/2012/04/24/a...of-expression/

What Christopher Krebs is up to:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classic...nford-classics

What Greg Crane is up to:
http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news473187

Honours for Crawford Greenwalt:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/...ity-of-sardis/

Latest ‘why study Latin’ piece:
http://www.nouse.co.uk/2012/04/23/fo...ve-of-latin-2/

Nice video on Oxyrhychus: the city and its texts:
http://youtu.be/nS_FSkFwpIM

Those gladiators tried to return to the Colosseum:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/04/...9461335465329/

Not sure if we mentioned that Santorini is rumbling again:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-greek-i...-awakened.html

More on proposed Roman theme parks:
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinati...rome-/680185/1

More on moles at Epiacum:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-nor...age-vindolanda

Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...y-beard-review

… and a feature on her as well:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserve...ile-mary-beard

… and a clip from the second episode of *Meet the Romans*:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUiNH...re=uploademail

Review of Natalie Haynes, *The Ancient Guide to Modern Life*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...rn-life-review

Review of Madeline Miller, *Song of Achilles*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/bo...ne-miller.html