Bryaxis Hecatee

well you probably forgot...

Thanks for those advises. While swiming was not planned (time, period of the year, need to take more bagages are all factors discoraging me), Pergamenon and Ephesus are definitively on my to-do list if I can get enough money for the "roaming wild" trip option I must precise that I don't have any driving licence and must thus travel using public transports (and I don't like organized tours...). Keep listing your suggestions, so that I may have as many ideas as possible.

Since I've always had fine recommendations from the members I decided to once more call upon your collective knowledge. I intend to spend one or two weeks in Turkey, a country which is rather cheap and which I'd visit off season, being on vacation from October 29 to November 13. Yet I've never been to Turkey and would like to make the trip worthwile, with of course a focus on the Ancient world. I know the climate will probably prevent me from going to the elder places like Catal Hoyuk or G

Terrific! many thanks, Bryaxis - and only

http://books.google.com/books/about/Les_enceintes_romaines_de_la_Gaule.html?id=Jx8XAAAAYAAJ Old but usefull to look at for everything in Gaul

No, is not in Dalmatia although it is the right coast.

I haven't found an answer to your question Crispina, either in my Capitoline Museum guide book or on the web. In fact I've discovered that there is some confusion on the statue : it is known as "Marcellus" indeed but is either the Marcellus of Syracusae or one of the Marcelli who played such a role in the events of the late 50's BC (Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 51 BC), Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (consul 50 BC, father of Varus) and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior (consul 49 BC))

If you want I may send you a high resolution version of the picture I took in december 2008 : https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FYfHNpD9d5Q/TCdaA_Cl-iI/AAAAAAAAn04/A9ZEr2gMd94/s512/P1030886.JPG And while a copy of the book would be great, a simple mention of my name and link to my picasa gallery is all I ask for

Usefull numismatic can be done, sometimes out of a single coin which can reveal a lot as Guy often shows on this very forum, but more often than not the coins on the market are indeed part of criminal activities, and even those which are not often come from digs that were not done by professional archeologists but by UK "metal detectorists", peoples going in the fields with metal detecting machines who will unearth everything and, for most of them, won't tell the local "Portable Antiquity Scheme" official or archeologist of what they found, especially if it is not silver or gold material (which fall under the UK treasure act). Barford's view are sometime quite (too) strongly expressed but I must admit that I'm fully in agreement with his views on the topic. I must add that I've owned for more than a decade a small fifth or fourth century BC undecorated attic or etruscan ceramic and a 2nd century AD roman silver coin , both given to me by friends who had acquired them as gift from third parties who had themselve, from what few details I may know, taken them from an undocumented wreck on the southern coast of France and a roman villa in Luxembourg, so I'm not perfectly honest with my own view, but still I would not attempt to acquire any antiquity for which there is a good, pre-1970 (UNESCO international law), history.

I love the journalist's "it's not the first time the Colosseum burns, the first time was in 64 A.D. ..."... Surely the BBC can do better ?

Either that or, as the area is in a river (Danube ?) flood plain, it got silted over by the river (see what Viggen said about his recent visit to the place, I think he mentionned that fact)

But it is not, unfortunately for you and fortunately for the fun of the game !

I'd also like to point to a few sites to go through before the buying of any antiquities : - http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ - http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/ The second site especially has in depth studies of issues in the trade of ancient coins, many being illegaly dug up in eastern Europe by looters destroying the context and selling the coins separated, preventing almost any kind of historicaly meaningfull study. Buying coins often makes you breach the law of other countries (or make you an accomplice of the crime), especially coins sold in the US where a lot of illegaly dug up coins are on sale. So please think twice and ask for a detailed history of any item you might want to buy.

such choice would be a wise one indeed !

The book on demography sounds interesting, their are so many conflicting thesis on ancient demography that this book could usefully clear the issue, although it seems quite a technical book. Maritime archeology could be a fine read too, especially if well endowed with pictures of the wrecks (but the link seems to be wrong...). Maty's latest seems very interesting too, I'll probably order it whenever I got some funds (for, truly, spending more than 500

In fact you have the inital 6 volumes, from Marius to Caesar, and then later came a seventh on Anthony and Cleopatra. They are a great serie, much documented, with credible inventions were history does not provide us with the details, and often such liberties as she may have taken with known (or unknown) events are discussed at the end of the book. Probably the serie I most enjoyed on the period, in my opinion much better than Harris' two books on Cicero, throwing Iggulden slash and sandals in the gutter, ridiculing Manfredi's "Ides of March" and, according to me, also superior to our fellow member Ben Kane's "Forgotten Legion" serie

Since many authors have joined us in the last few month I thought I'd update the list of recent ancient greek and roman fictions I know of (and, for most, have read) - Richard Blake "Aelric" serie : "Conspiracies of Rome", "The Terror of Constantinople", "The blood of Alexandria" : A young british barbarian is sent to Rome for both education and security but finds himself hurled into the politics of the late 6th century AD... - Christian Cameron "Tyrant" serie : "Tyrant", "Storm of Arrow", "Funeral Games", "King of the Bosphorus" : greek mercenaries in the black sea area at the time of Alexander the Great, then the adventures of his children in the time of the Diadochoi - Christian Cameron : "Killer of men" and "Marathon" : the first greco-mede war - David Anthony Durham : "Hannibal Pride of Carthage" : The second punic war seen from the carthaginian point of view - Robert Fabri : Vespasian Tribune of Rome - Robert Harris "Cicero's life" serie : "Imperium", Lustrum : Cicero and his time - Robert Harris : Pompe

Yet France it is not ! Still, the country as indeed a coast.

Well well ! The author of the excellent Memnon and the fine Men of Bronze himself graces us with his presence ! UNRV is getting better frequented every day ! We just lack Mr Sidebottom and Pressfield and we'll have all the current great writers of novels in the ancient time ! (I don't know yet if Mr Fabbri's Vespasian Tribune of Rome is good so I won't add him to the list). As for your specific question, I've not found any public domain information on digs on land betwen Artemisio and Asminio, the small villages of northern Eubea which now sits on top of the ancient ?????????. The place is more know for the underwater excavations that took place nearby, and the monument might well have been more at the end of the cape than in the city. One source of information you might want to check (and to which I don't have access in my private library) is the Real Encyclopaedie Pauly-Wissowa, RE 2/2 "Artemision 1" (reference given by the Oxford Classical Dictionary 3

Klingan, Well it's the mention of the neapolitan area which gave me a first tip, then I simply though back about my 2009 hollidays and suggested the only place I remembered that could look a bit like that, the place I saw in the distance (since the dig was off-limits) Now, for a new challenge... Allow me to suggest the following place :

Could the picture show part of the dig at the roman part of Cumae, close to Napoli ?

I must say that while the french edition does indeed have end-notes instead of lower page notes, it does come with a full bibliography of 42 pages, index and 15 illustrations...

Indeed VDH is a great name in ancient greek warfare and his research on hoplite battle and, more crucially, on the real impact of pillaging on a mediterranean agricultural society (including experiments on his own farm's olive trees which he tried to set afire and chop down) have been milestone in the discipline. Since around 9/11/01 though he became more and more politicaly active and his analisys more and more biaised by his political thinking.

Alba Fucens had at least one colonated street : https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PZDGyJ4wr7w/RsDVylqslXI/AAAAAAAAApA/vV2r9afYtiI/s512/P4210151.JPG

Not read yet, but soon to be, the books I bought in London and Oxford this week-end : - Christian Cameron : Marathon (Arimnestos of Platea vol. 2) - Ben Kane : Hannibal, Enemy of Rome (signed by the author and left on Waterstone Picadilly's shelfs, unfortunately the cover has a defect) - Anthony Riches : Fortress of Spears (Empire vol. 3) - Harry Sidebottom : The Caspian Gates (Warrior of Rome vol. 4) That for the novels, but I also got myself about half a dozen books on ancient warfare (mainly on Alexander and the Successors), one on ancient roman armor (Hilary and John Travis - Roman Body Armour, that I shall compare to the recently bought D'amato and Sumners)and the complete loeb editions of Strabo's geography and Fronto's Stratagemata.