Ancient History at UCR

06/05/2020

Over on the SCS blog, Dr. Alberto Bardi reviews a new digital project called Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL). It addresses and seeks to rectify a "longstanding tendency to ethnocentrism and Hellenophilia implicit in the narrative of the rebirth of Greek science in the Renaissance [which] has shaped the historiography of science and early modern historiography more generally."

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/alberto-bardi/review-reconstructing-ptolemy-and-his-global-legacy

03/22/2020

An alternative to Spring Break plans that may have been cancelled...

There are dozens of virtual museums to visit through Google Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/streetviews And Pompeii archaeologist Dr. Sophie Hay zeroes in on the MANN in particular: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8535597,14.2512346,2a,75y,149.67h,92.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfCMtR8XAz2cAAAQrCyx9jw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

01/30/2020

The AAH’s Committee on Teaching has solicited and collected these syllabi, which span the amazing breadth of ancient history. In this archive, the Committee strives to reflect the diversity of course types and institutions that AAH members represent. Each syllabus is preceded by a cover letter con...

01/21/2020

Ever wonder the chronological (rather than alphabetical) order of ancient authors in the Loeb Classical library? They have a helpful timeline over at Harvard Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/loeb/timeline.html

12/16/2019

A busy week with several banner Manuscripts among the 63 that were digizited this week. Vat.lat.5750 is a 6th C Sacramentay thought to be from Bobbio, created as a palimpsest over a series of even older manuscripts. The Vatican provided a series of notes at the beginning of the digitized copy explai...

11/07/2019

An upcoming seminar on early Christianity!

10/23/2019

Researchers at Oxford University and DeepMind Technologies, a UK-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) company owned by Alphabet Inc. - a conglomerate best known as the parent company of Google - have created “Pythia,” an ancient text restoration system that outperforms experts in guessing the miss...

10/15/2019

Prof. Salzman is speaking in Italy today and tomorrow

10/09/2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767309531/ancient-greek-scrolls-hidden-contents-revealed-through-infrared-imaging?fbclid=IwAR3SsUh1ML2UOrKrajg6D8dvGVQzJq6QVN3HBBR4kOlSwj_9NwYhLJOyf1A

More than 200 years ago, a scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was unrolled and pasted onto cardboard, even though it had writing on the back. New imagery shows some of what's hidden.

09/21/2019

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09/18/2019

The Society for Ancient Studies (SAS)—an interdisciplinary graduate student organization at New York University —is hosting its second-annual one-day undergraduate conference on the ancient world on Friday, February 7th, 2020 in Manhattan. This conference, organized and moderated by graduate stu...