and the story goes on

CANOSA DI PUGLIA: What a wonderful couple of days I spent last week in Canosa [despite the rather warm weather]. I visited the excavations and the new venue of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Canosa [not yet open to the public], engaged in discussions with local archaeologists and art historians from the Fondazione Archeologica Canosina [ https://www.canusium.it ], and gathered excellent material for my forthcoming article in ANTIQVVS Magazine. The article will focus on one of the distinctive aspects of the pre-Roman heritage of Canosa.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the warm hospitality and the superb organisation of the visit, which included access to unique and often overlooked historical sites as well as ongoing excavations. My thanks go both to the Fondazione Archeologica Canosina as an institution, and to its individual founders, representatives and specialists:

Dott. Sergio Fontana, President [ IG: @ fac_canusium ]

Matteo Fraccacreta [ IG: @ fac_canusium ]

Francesco Specchio [ IG: @ canosasiamonoi ]

Giusy Del Vento [ IG: @ giusydelvento ]

Giovanni De Ventuno, Univ. of Bari

Archaeological Museum of Canosa https://museipuglia.cultura.gov.it/musei/museo-nazionale-archeologico-di-canosa IG: @ museo_archeologico_canosa

Fondazione Archeologica Canosina:

Web : https://www.canusium.it

FB : https://www.facebook.com/canusium.it

IG : @ fac_canusium

YT : @ fondazionearcheologicacano7127

when a hog steals your pants and you have to hunt it down with an ax

book of hours, use of st. omer, c. 1318-25

shoving sthenelus out of the chariot b/c she’s going to drive diomedes into battle and she can’t be bothered to like ask him to get off

punching aphrodite in the boob

saying that aphrodite scratched her hand on a brooch when she’d in fact been stabbed on athena’s orders

making a deal with ares to stop interfering in the fight and then immediately giving diomedes special shiny powers

convincing pandarus to shoot menelaus in book four and then guiding the javelin to kill pandarus in the book five

the many, many ways she cheats during the funeral games to make sure diomedes and odysseus win

everything to do with hector’s death and deiphobus 

has this been done

98 LINES, 80% COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL

Image Credit: FLYOVERZONE

Rome Reborn 4.0, a digital model of Ancient Rome has just been released by archaeologist, Dr Bernard Frischer. Published by Flyover Zone, the model is a reconstruction of the entire city of Ancient Rome for academic study and virtual tourism. Rome Reborn provides a birds-eye perspective of the complete digital model, enabling users to glide above the historic landmarks while listening to expert narrations about 43 monuments, temples, structures, and locations.

Dr Frischer said, “Rome Reborn 4.0 is the culmination of more than twenty-seven years of collaborative international work in using digital tools to research cultural history and bring it to life.” According to the project leaders, the virtual tour can be used by teachers on Yorescape, a mobile and web app that takes their students on virtual field trips, or by armchair travellers to explore the heritage sites of the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.

Rome Reborn 4.0 represents the most recent iteration of an urban model that Dr Frischer has led since 1996. Rome Reborn has been a globally collaborative project from its inception, uniting specialists in Roman archaeology, computer graphics, and Virtual Reality design. The project’s earlier versions include 1.0 (2007), 2.0 (2008), and 3.0 (2018). Video fly-throughs of these previous versions have been viewed by millions of people worldwide. Similar to its earlier versions, Rome Reborn 4.0 portrays the city as it might have appeared at its zenith in the year AD 320, just before the capital’s relocation to Constantinople. According to Flyover Zone, “This reconstruction of ancient Rome’s urban landscape adheres to scientific accuracy based on the available but fragmentary historical evidence. As new findings and interpretations of this evidence emerge, the Flyover Zone team continuously updates Rome Reborn to ensure it remains a dependable and comprehensive visualization of the city.”