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Lost and Found: Pompeii and the Lost Cities by John Malam Book Review by Aurelia “Pompeii and other Lost Cities” is part of the Lost and Found series, a wonderful little collection of history books made for children aged 7 years and above. It is a great way to introduce your child to the wonders of history and fire up their imagination of ancient civilisations. This is certainly the kind of book that I would have spent hours poring over as a child... ...read the full review of Lost and Found: Pompeii and the Lost Cities by John Malam

...pretty exciting news! A team of Greek researchers has confirmed that bones found in a two-chambered royal tomb at Vergina, a town some 100 miles away from Amphipolis's mysterious burial mound, indeed belong to the Macedonian King Philip II, Alexander the Great's father. Play Video How Did They Build the Pyramids? With Water! Find out how this seemingly impossible task might have been accomplished. The anthropological investigation examined 350 bones and fragments found in two larnakes, or caskets, of the tomb. It uncovered pathologies, activity markers and trauma that helped identify the tomb's occupants. Along with the cremated remains of Philip II, the burial, commonly known as Tomb II, also contained the bones of a woman warrior, possibly the daughter of the Skythian King Athea, Theodore Antikas, head of the Art-Anthropological research team of the Vergina excavation, told Discovery News... via Discovery News

File Name: Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian of Nicomedia File Submitter: Viggen File Submitted: 09 Oct 2014 File Category: Free Classic Works in PDF Anabasis Alexandri (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρου ἀνάβασις Alexándrou anábasis), the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, is the most important source on Alexander the Great. The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. The term katabasis referred to a trip from the interior to the coast. So a more literal translation would be The Expedition of Alexander. This work on Alexander is one of the few surviving complete accounts of the Macedonian conqueror's expedition. Arrian was able to use sources which are now lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes (the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle), Onesicritus, Nearchus, and Aristobulus, and the slightly later work of Cleitarchus. Most important of all, Arrian had the biography of Alexander by Ptolemy, one of Alexander's leading generals and possibly his half-brother. It is primarily a military history; it has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place. Click here to download this file

while it is very impressive to look at a picture like this impressive marble bust of an elderly Julio-Claudian. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/248722 it is a totally different thing to see the same bust in 3D http://p3d.in/14HlA on this site is a collection of busts and other artifacts, it is really a special treat... http://p3d.in/u/sfsheath

Thousands of pottery shards, dating back between 3,500 and 3,000 BC, have been uncovered thanks to a project run by volunteers. Reading University lecturer and archaeologist Dr Duncan Garrow headed the Stepping Stones project with Fraser Sturt, of Southampton University. Dr Garrow called the find of an age that preceded the Bronze Age "significant and intriguing ". He said: "In 2013 we mainly dug small two metre by two metre test pits and this time we were looking for buildings and made a much larger 10 by 12 metre trench. We found about 30 post holes which might have been successive structures. There weren't any coherent buildings, however, like neat rectangles, which is always a bit annoying, but is the way it is. Also found were thousands of pottery shards and flint, and one pit yielded thick layers of charcoal about which we are not sure – containing material, rock crystals and a pierced pebble necklace or amulet." ...via Archaeology News Network

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...here an interesting research paper from a military tactical point of view Comparing Strategies of the 2d Punic War: Rome’s Strategic Victory Over the Tact ical/Operational Genius, Hannibal Barca http://www.iwar.org.uk/military/resources/hannibal/Parker_J_P_01.pdf

...so looking at the box this game does look not bad, http://www.ugg.de/UGG/pics/Hotre%20komplett.jpg I wonder if anyone from here played it?

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed one of the earliest known images of Jesus, shedding new light on the appearance of Christianity in Spain. Engraved on a glass plate (called a paten) which dates back to the 4th century A.D., Jesus is depicted beardless and with short, curly hair. He wears what appears to be a philosopher’s toga and is flanked by two equally beardless male characters, thought to be the apostles Peter and Paul. All men have halos over their heads. The plate, which measures 8.6 inches in diameter, is believed to have held Eucharistic bread in early Christian rituals. It was unearthed, broken in several fragments, inside a religious building in the ancient town of Cástulo in Andalusia... ...via Discovery

Lecturer in Classical Archaeology - Durham University - United Kingdom Lecturer in Classical Archaeology Reference Number 3982 Location Durham City Faculty/Division Social Sciences and Health Department Archaeology Grade Grade 7 Position Type Full Time Contract Type Fixed Term Salary (£) 31342 - 37394 Closing Date 25 October 2014 Job DescriptionThe Department of Archaeology seeks to appoint a developing academic who is actively engaged in research into the Archaeology of Greece, Anatolia/Asia Minor and the Aegean in the Classical and Hellenistic periods with a knowledge of prehistory. Their research interests should include one or more of the following: material culture (including ceramics, artistic production and architecture), GIS and landscape archaeology, Cultural Heritage. He/she will complement existing teaching in Classical and Roman Archaeology which is currently focused on Britain, France, Italy, North Africa and Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and in the Roman and Byzantine periods. While the specific teaching requirements of the post will include Classical Archaeology, the candidate will also be expected to develop opportunities for engagement with colleagues working on the Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Europe and west and south Asia. Durham is one of Britain's leading universities for teaching and research. The Archaeology Department was ranked first in the UK in the Research Assessment exercise 2008 and third for our subject in both the Times Good University Guide 2013 and the Complete University Guide 2013 and fourth in the Guardian University Guide. Archaeology has been taught here since 1931 and the Department now has one of the largest teaching groups in the UK, totalling 31 full-time members of teaching staff, as well as research staff working on a variety of archaeological projects. We host 15 postdoctoral researchers and over 100 research postgraduates. The successful candidate will combine pursuit of their academic research agenda with a strong commitment to teaching and fieldwork, and will also contribute to the development of new activities. Research in the Department is organised through a number of research groups and the new appointee would be expected to contribute to one or more of these groups. The successful applicant will also be involved in the delivery of postgraduate research supervision as well as taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Applicants must state how they will meet international standards of excellence. This should include a two-year personal research plan and impact activities that support and enhance the research strategy of the Department and its standing as a UK and world-leading centre for archaeology. Candidates should also be able to show how their research will impact on debates within and beyond the discipline and strengthen Durham’s profile as an international centre for postgraduate studies. The successful candidate will be expected to start on the 1 January 2015 or as soon as possible after that date. The post is fixed term until 31 December 2016. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University. Requirements The successful candidate will contribute to the Department in the following areas: • Enhancement of departmental research profile; • Attraction of external research funding; • Development of a distinctive Durham profile in teaching and research that is attractive to students and staff. Responsibilities• Contribute to the research environment of the Department. • Contribute to core teaching of undergraduates and taught postgraduates, and offer specialised modules that reflect their research interests. • Develop research projects and attract external research funding. • To engage fully with all aspects of the Department’s activity including recruitment, curriculum design, strategic planning and administration. Person SpecificationEssential • A good first degree in Archaeology and a PhD in a relevant specialist area. • Able to teach Classical/Hellenistic Greece and Asia Minor. • A growing body of high quality research publications in Classical and Hellenistic archaeology. • An ability to undertake high quality teaching and supervision in archaeology at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, across a range of topics, including classical archaeology. • Must be willing and able to contribute effectively to relevant administration duties within the Department. • The applicant’s research has the potential to shape the disciplinary agenda and/or create public benefit or impact in terms of individual or societal wellbeing or the economy outside the academic community. Desirable • Record of active involvement, at least at the level of co-investigator, in a field research project in the region, that is either ongoing or is about to commence. • Able to teach the Iron Age and Orientalising periods, the Minoans and Myceneans at undergraduate level. • Evidence of success in generating research grants. • Evidence of successful research collaborations. Additional InformationDurham University is committed to the Concordat to support the career development of researchers. For further information please visit the Research Staff web pages on http://www.dur.ac.uk/hr/researchstaff/ https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=88964

Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies - University of Michigan - USA Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies The Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan has been authorized to fill a position beginning July 1, 2015 at the level of Assistant Professor. The area within Classical Studies is open, although we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in Aegean Prehistory, Classical Reception or Ancient Science. Preference will be given to candidates who do not duplicate existing strengths. This position is part of a new University cluster on “The Mediterranean Perspective on Global History and Culture” devoted to studying the Mediterranean as a dynamic area of cultural, religious, social and political exchange (see www.lsa.umich.edu/mediterranean) and involving Classical Studies, History of Art, Judaic Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures. The candidate must be interested in wide-ranging cross-disciplinary approaches to networks of cultural interaction across the Mediterranean, and will participate in Mediterranean-based curricula and programs both within their own departments and interdepartmentally, including a collaborative undergraduate course on interdisciplinary approaches to the Mediterranean. Qualifications: PhD or equivalent by date of appointment. Candidates should send a cover letter, CV, and article or chapter-length writing sample, along with three letters of reference to lsa-med-classics-search@umich.edu by November 3, 2014. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Art and Archaeology of the Roman World (Assistant Professor) University of British Columbia - Canada The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Art and Archaeology of the Roman World to commence July 1, 2015. The successful candidate will join a flourishing interdisciplinary department with a longstanding graduate program in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, with strengths in cross-cultural approaches. S/he will be competent to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in Roman archaeology and Roman visual culture. Beyond the ability to teach the range of Roman material culture, the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching of other courses in classical archaeology, Roman history, and/or ancient languages. An active archaeological project that can provide field-work opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students will be considered an asset. The successful candidate must hold a PhD in Roman Archaeology (or expect to have successfully defended prior to July 1, 2015) and must have demonstrated accomplishments in scholarship along with enthusiasm for teaching in a department with the unique combination of fields present in CNERS. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active program of research, graduate and undergraduate teaching, and to participate fully in graduate supervision, departmental service, events, and initiatives. The programs, faculty research interests, and general activities of CNERS are found at: www.cnrs.ubc.ca. The starting salary for the position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Applicants should send electronic copies of their letter of application, together with a copy of their curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample of recent scholarship, and the names and e-mail addresses of three referees. Candidates are asked to request that their referees write separately on their behalf to reach the Department not later than the date indicated. Referees’ signed confidential letters of support can be sent as a .pdf attachment (to the e-mail address indicated below). Applicants should submit their materials to the attention of Marisa Scorda at marisa.scorda(at)ubc.ca. Deadline for receipt of applications and supporting materials: October 8, 2014 The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will, however, be given priority.

File Name: Minting in Vandal North Africa File Submitter: Viggen File Submitted: 03 Oct 2014 File Category: Scientific Papers Minting in Vandal North Africa: coins of the Vandal period in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum by GUIDO M. BERNDT ROLAND STEINACHER This paper offers a re-examination of some problems regarding the coinage of Vandal North Africa. The coinage of this barbarian successor state is one of the first non-imperial coinages in the Mediterranean world of the fifth and sixth centuries. Based on the fine collection in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, this article questions the chronology of the various issues and monetary relations between the denominations under the Vandal kings, especially after the reign of Gunthamund (484– 96). The Vandals needed and created a solid financial system. In terms of political, administrative and economic structures they tried to integrate their realm into the changing world of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Click here to download this file

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Book Review by Ian Hughes It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Sasanid Shahs would regularly persecute their Christian subjects, whom they suspected of being in alliance with Rome, and that in response war would break out with the Later Roman Empire as the emperors attempted to stop the persecution of their co-religionists. In addition, it is sometimes assumed that after the last Romano-Sasanid war the newly-converted Arabs swept away the Sasanids and imposed Islam on their newly-subject peoples... ...continue to the full review of The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq by Philip Wood

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A team of Turkish archaeologists excavating on the site of the famous historical city of Troy, on the hills of Hisarlik, has uncovered a large structure made of wooden planks, that is presumed to be the remains of the legendary Trojan Horse. Dozens of fir planks and beams up to 15 meters long, that were once part of ancient seafaring ships, have been found assembled together in a very unusual fashion and at a location that is inside the ancient city walls of the Homeric Troy. A heavily damaged bronze plate bearing an inscription translated as “For their return home, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena” was also found on the site, an additional proof that this could indeed be the Trojan Horse. This plate is in fact described by Quintus Smynaeus is his epic poem “Posthomerica”. via World News Daily

...thanks to Adrienne Mayor who pointed me in the right direction, the whole article for free The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/Hesperia_83_3_Amazons_Mayor.pdf

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Study of a remarkable group of Roman-era baby burials suggests they were the victims of infanticide, designed to regulate family size. In 1912, Alfred Cocks excavated the Yewden Roman Villa at Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. He noted a remarkable total of 97 infant burials, mainly from a yard adjacent to the villa buildings. The sheer number led Cocks to suggest that they may have been victims of infanticide – the deliberate killing of unwanted babies, a practice for limiting family size that was tolerated in many earlier societies, including that of Classical Rome. full story for your convinience attached as pdf romanvillapdf.pdf via Heritage UK

...yesterday i watched the latest episode of the Knick and it was breathtaking, disturbing and emotional, and i am not the only one who thinks that... (brilliant show) http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/steven-soderbergh-the-knick-directing-race-riot.html?mid=facebook_vulture

...anyone seen it? full show on Youtube some archaeological evidence... http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/headless-romans/index.htm

File Name: The Satires by Horace File Submitter: Viggen File Submitted: 29 Sep 2014 File Category: Free Classic Works in PDF The Satires (Latin: Satirae or Sermones) are a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameters, the Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection. Published probably in 35 BCE and at the latest by 33 BCE, the first book of Satires represents Horace's first published work, and it established him as one of the great poetic talents of the Augustan Age. The second book was published in 30 BCE as a sequel. In his Sermones (Latin for "conversations") or Satires (Latin for "miscellaneous poems"), Horace combines Epicurean, that is, originally Greek philosophy with Roman good sense to convince his readers of the futility and silliness of their ambitions and desires. As an alternative, he proposes a life that is based on the Greek philosophical ideals of autarkeia (Greek for "inner self-sufficiency") and metriotes (Greek for "moderation" or sticking to the Just Mean). In S. 1.6.110–131, Horace illustrates what he means by describing a typical day in his own simple, but contented life. The second book also addresses the fundamental question of Greek Hellenistic philosophy, the search for a happy and contented life. In contrast to Satires I, however, many of this book's poems are dialogues in which the poet allows a series of pseudo-philosophers, such as the bankrupt art-dealer turned Stoic philosopher Damasippus, the peasant Ofellus, the mythical seer Teiresias, and the poet's own slave Dama, to espouse their philosophy of life, in satiric contrast to that of the narrator. Click here to download this file