I totally forgot to post about it, but if you recall my previous entry about the British Museum's Hadrian exhibition... They've put up the Antinous video! WATCH IT - the whole thing ends tomorrow ! Come on, it's just three minutes. /belated pimpage

Setting: Rome, and I'm interested in practices between around 180 AD to, lets say, 350ish AD.  I'm happy to compare what was done at different times. I'm having trouble visualising certain aspects of... And they're anyone of equestrian class, right? * (couldn't make a link work, for some reason - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Basilica.html#tribunal )

I've found the page for the British Museum's Hadrian exhibition, and it's actually very nicely done. I have a sneaking suspicion that it might all go down the drain when the exhibition ends later this...it looks like they're preparing something about Antinous. COME ON, PUT IT UP ALREADY! I so wish I could see the whole exhibition, damn. But the site certainly makes not being able to more bearable.

The Romans never fail to astonish me. Take, for example, the emperor Commodus' exploits.  He (apparently, if we can trust hostile sources) liked to pretend he was Hercules and, for this purpose, brought...the Romans that make me realise why I am studying them. The so-called Palestrina Nile mosaic, complete with meticulously labelled crocodiles and a crocodilopardalis, whatever that might be. 

Wait, October? I'm still getting used to the fact that summer is over. Like a lot of writers I know, there are certain themes I keep coming back to and exploring again in my fiction. One that I've been... I think for the first time, and some actually new. Total Submissions Out Right Now : 6. Non-Research / Review Books In Progress : Michener; Stirling; Up Till Now by William Shatner.

Abstract: The legend of Aeneas is compared with a corresponding legend preserved in the family books of weaving castes among the Andhras in India. Phonetic affinities between corresponding names of...Indian History and Civilisation, Manohar      Publications, New Delhi, 1988. [15] G.Parrinder (Ed), Man and his Gods: Encyclopedia of the World's      Religions, Hamlyn, London, 1971.    

THE LOVE LIVES OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS From one-night stands to steamy encounters in the bathhouse, Pompeii was a society obsessed with sex. Sex, shopping and chasing slaves Roman sexual culture was different...co.uk/booksfirst Mary Beard will speak at the British Museum on Monday, November 10, at 6.30pm. Tickets are £5 but Times readers can order tickets for £3. Call 020-7323 8896 and quote “Times offer”

In a recent dinner party, it was mentioned that there had been a recent TV show on Rome. I thought of the book "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars," by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, which I recently received...knowledge available on it, to study. The web and LJ are certainly a boon for unloading these thoughts where others can read them at their leisure, if they are interested. Otherwise I might burst

I have returned from Rome, and cool things were seen. A lot of cool things I think are only cool to an ancient history nerd. I held everybody up in the statues section of the Vatican museum, like "Ooh... Peter's Basilica now, which is also a huge and beautiful place of worship) they're just a blade of grass to a God who lives forever: here one day, gone the next, and it's place doesn't remember it.

Grrrr... remind me not to include so many lj cuts, href and lj user tags in my posts. I always forget the " or something.... Meme from stella8h8chang on creative writing. I used to hate creative...seemed to be trying to strangle his intestines. Maybe this one was as guilty as the rest. Traitors to the Reich, traitors to the fatherland, to their own people. Perhaps Germany had finally gone mad.