Professor Gene Allen Smith who works at Texas Christian University and is a curator at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History wrote an interesting book on the impact of war on early nineteenth century slavery at the Antebellum American South. In this book Allen Smith is trying to explore the possibilities for social mobility among the slaves and freedmen. Specifically, the author focuses on ... »
“Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. December 12th and 13th, 2012 All sessions will take place in the Faculty of Classics, Room G21. Papers will run for 30 minutes each and be followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Wednesday December 12th 9:15-9:30 Introductory remarks by William Harris and Robin Osborne 1. Genetics, population, health, disease, living standards, part I 9:30-10:30 Robert C. Allen... »
“Since 2007, a handful of volunteers is working on the task of reproducing the Pauly-Wissowa’s ‘Realencyclopaedie’ in the internet [2]. This project is hosted on Wikisource, a sister project of Wikipedia. Of course, Wikisource only features RE articles that are out of copyright, which means (in Europe) the author must be dead for more than 70 years. Now this project has rea... »
Last week I took my students to visit the Heberden room in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford. The visit was organised in collaboration with the Keeper of Coins and Medals, Prof. Chris Howgego. As you probably already know Chris is an expert of Roman coins and the successful author of several books and articles on the subject. Before I even start describing the experience, I would like to express my g... »
Around 430 BC a poet and musician died in ancient Athens. An excavation of his grave in the deme of Alopeke revealed a lyre, an avlos, a harp, papyri, wax tablets and a pen, all of which gave us clues about his professional life. The findings proved to be crucial for the study of ancient music, since no other harp has been found until then (only representations on vases), while the papyri were the... »
“Dr Lisa Irene Hau provided some useful links that I would like to share with you of Herodotus audio books. Naxos have several works of ancient literature in their audio book cd range. For Herodotus, see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Herodotus-The-Persian-War-Histories/dp/B0000045ON/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352116076&sr=8-1 Here’s a link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Histories-Unabrid... »