O.K., so anyone who has seen The Life of Brian can provide many answers to this question. A fun article in the Telegraph provides another answer — the Romans determined where the Brits today live. Not earth shattering news, but a nice article to check out if you’ve got the time. If only the Romans…Continue Reading What did the Romans ever do for us?
More Monuments Falling Down
An article today about the “House of the Gladiators” in Pompeii that collapsed over the weekend. People often wonder why more ancient sites aren’t being excavated. One issue is that we don’t have sufficient resources to properly care for all of the sites that have already been excavated. Uncovering and preserving the ancient world often…Continue Reading More Monuments Falling Down
Historians Admit to Inventing Ancient Greece
A rather hilarious story from The Onion reporting that a team of scholars working in the early 1970s invented all of ancient Greek history. Quite fitting as we had our Greek History midterm exam today! (Special thanks to Amy McCandless for sharing this story with me)….Continue Reading Historians Admit to Inventing Ancient Greece
The Romans are coming!
The Romans are coming to South Carolina! Coming up on October 8 & 9 is a program that bills itself as a “most unique family event”: VITA ROMANA. Basically, it seems like a Roman trading camp is being set up in Brunson, South Carolina. Details about the event can be found on line at http://www.castrarota.com/. I…Continue Reading The Romans are coming!
Health Care and Higher Education
Funding for state colleges continues to attract attention in the press. An interesting opinion piece appeared in Sunday’s NYTimes. The author argues that health care budgets and state funding of colleges are related. Over the decades as state spending on medical programs has increased, funding for higher education has decreased. If we do a better…Continue Reading Health Care and Higher Education