Thoughts on Antiquity

I want to welcome Mark Keith to the classical blogdom with his new blog pro linguae Latinae magistris. In case you couldn’t figure it out from the name, the blog is about teaching Latin, in particular high school Latin. Here is the blurb:
This weblog is dedicated to the musings of a high school Latin teacher. […]

I have a couple of questions for any reader who may be knowledgeable about Medieval Latin manuscripts. I have a copy of the Magna Carta reprinted from Lincoln from which I began to make a transcription. I also was using the one hosted at the British Library.My first question is the TC question - why […]

From here:
Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx….The staircase is believed to be the original entrance to the villa, which was built for Hadrian in […]

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There are three early historians who are thought to mention Jesus Christ. The first is Josephus. Flavius Josephus was a Jewish historian writing once captured in Judaea who then wrote for the emporers of Rome. He wrote in Aramaic and translated it himself into Greek, but all we have surviving is the Greek copy. He […]

Just found this blog scrolling through Dr. Goodacre’s blogroll, not sure how I missed it earlier. It is a blog by Jason Hood about the Gospel of Matthew, a favorite subject of mine. He, like me, also lives in Memphis, TN. He has plenty of information for me to look over, take what I need, […]

Phil Harland’s recent blogpost A Very Jewish Jesus: The Gospel of Matthew’s portrait (NT4) raises a very relevant concern for me. He writes:
Something I often stress to students of early Christianity is that this Jesus movement was very much a form of Judaism in its origins. The peasant Jesus was a Jew, and all the […]

In a scene out of the Hollywood Indiana Jones, three Israeli children stumbled upon an ancient Second Temple cave in the Beit Shemesh area filled with skeletons and ossuaries, Israel’s Antiquities Authority announced Monday.
This should prove useful. I wonder how far back we’re going here? Hopefully we’ll get something from at least 500 auc or […]

ROME - It served first as a notebook for ancient painters and then as part of a mummy’s wrapping. Now, a first-century-BC parchment believed to contain the earliest cartography of the Greco-Roman era will be on display next month in the northern Italian city of Turin.
The Papyrus of Artemidorus tells a tale of more than […]