Classical news round up for Monday 3 August:
- The Washington Post has a review of Chris Wickham's Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000. I have posted a number of reviews of the book. The most recent one is here
- A review of Lisa Bitel's Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe on late fifth/early sixth century Christianity at Medieval News
- The Life of Antoninus Pius reviews how the Antonine Wall is represented on the web. Not well is the short answer, but then what did anyone expect. Historic Scotland is involved.
- The Daily Mail writes about the stage show of Ben Hur. I don't think that I'll be getting tickets.
- A longish piece on the Varusschlacht at Turus.net
- A (previously) unpublished passage by the Coptic writer, Abu’l Makarem which deals with the plight of the defeated ordinary crusaders in Egypt after the failure of the Second Crusade on Roger Pearse's blog
- And finally, the difference between actual archaeology and Indiana Jones
Interesting to see from the Post review that Chris Wickham's book can be had for a sprightly $35 whereas over here we have to fork out a mighty 35 quid in a bookshop!
David
Posted by: David Findlay | August 03, 2009 at 11:06 PM
It seems to be priced against the discounted 23 quid at Amazon. Depressing
Posted by: adrianmurdoch | August 04, 2009 at 10:49 AM
The lacklustre web presence of the Antonine Wall is nothing compared to the lack of signs in the area, and the ignorance of tourist informations, taxi and bus drivers where to find even better preserved remains like Rough Castle.
In the end I asked a random school kid for directions and finally got some. ;)
Posted by: Gabriele | August 04, 2009 at 11:59 PM
I couldn't get my box to load from rogue classicism but wanted to alert you to the theft of a column capital from olympia, in ekathimerini 9'7/09
Column capital stolen from Ancient Olympia
The Culture Ministry yesterday ordered an investigation into the disappearance of a large fragment of a column from a basilica dating to the 6th century AD on the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia in the western Peloponnese.
The ministry called for an urgent probe into the unusual theft after the guard at the site reported the disappearance of the column capital.
A search of the open-air site did not turn up any clues as to how the perpetrators were able to remove the capital unnoticed.
A ministry official announced the immediate suspension of the director of the 6th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Georgia Hatzi, and immediately dispatched to Ancient Olympia a senior official from the ministry’s General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Maria Vlazaki.
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Posted by: Nina Barclay | September 07, 2009 at 06:49 PM