Bread and Circuses

Still fishing

A reliable Internet connection is proving difficult at the moment. Bread & Circuses will remain fishing for a while longer.

Gone fishing

Bread & Circuses is having a break for a couple of weeks while I move back to Europe. The Internet connection gets cut off tomorrow and there is a vast amount of packing to do. Normal service should resume around August 24.

Classical news round up 4/8/09

Classical news round up for Tuesday 4 August:

• God bless the Canadians! They are the only non-Germans who seem to care about the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Article in the Globe and Mail
• Sueddeutsche.de has an article on sources to the Varusschlacht; mrn-news.de looks at Arminius/Siegfried; and Eurasisches Magazin pulls together the defeat of Varus and the collapse of the Berlin Wall
• The Telegraph in India has an update on work at Muziris/Pattanam. Bread & Circuses last wrote about the dig here
• Finally, more on Kevin Macdonald's film of Eagle of the Ninth at the Times

Classical news round up 3/8/09

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• A (previously) unpublished passage by the Coptic writer, Abu’l Makarem which deals with the plight of the defeated ordinary crusaders in Egypt after the failure of the Second Crusade on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

Classical news round up 1/8/09

Classical news round up for Saturday 1 August:

• The Northampton Chronicle reports on objections to a proposed expansion of the Tesco supermarket in Towcester aka Lactodorum, saying it could destroy a Roman site
• A Celts and Romans exhibition opens at the Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch
• What's it really like to be an archaeologist? The Guardian has the answer
• The Louvre Museum launches its online database in English (hat tip Egyptology News)
• Pop Classics looks at Caroline Lawrence's The Pirates of Pompeii
• An update on the dig at the Villa delle Vignacce (hat tip Moscerina)
• The Wear Valley Mercury has a long piece on David Mason and the dig at the Roman site of Vinovium, Roman Binchester, near Durham. I have recommended the site's blog on several occasions
• Back in April Bread & Circuses wrote rather sceptically about a couple of Roman structures, possibly kilns, found in Otford, Kent. Diarmaid Walshe, who headed the dig, has taken the time to clarify at length the findings of the dig and the media coverage