Classics/Ancient History Blogs Gone?

When you look at an item on this blog under the "permalink", you see a short list of other blogs. Until recently, you'd see Rogue Classicism (run by David Meadows) on the list, but it's no longer visible. A while back, Irene Hahn's Roman History Books and More disappeared from this short list. Don't worry. They're not gone. They've just been bumped further down the list to make room for blogs on Classics and Ancient History that have names higher in the alphabet.

One of the blogs that pushed down my two favorite/most frequently read blogs is Adrian Murdoch's Bread and Circuses blog. Murdoch's specialty is the late Roman Empire and he has written books on the topic. For reasons best known to himself (perhaps when one writes full length ancient history books one needs to limit the distractions) he discontinued his popular blog for what seemed like years, but then, happily, he resurrected it last month.

Two blogs added this morning are on specialty topics dear to my heart, epigraphy and papyrology. When the cup that may refer to Christ as a magician and may have been found by Franck Goddio's team appeared in a Discovery article [see Did the Alexandrians Know Christ as a Magician?], I was directed (by Tom Elliot, Associate Director for Digital Programs, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) to one of these related lists for discussion. Current Epigraphy had been discussing problems in the report for quite a while before Discovery reported on it (and I reported on Discovery). They had determined that the odd-looking letter that is in the place where a short Greek E (epsilon) should have been located was probably a long Greek E (eta) [see Greek Alphabet] and pointed to evidence that it's not so uncommon a switch. Participants also pointed to various reasons for thinking the cup a fraud. At any rate, a valuable resource. While adding Current Epigraphy, I added its sister publication, What's New in Papyrology.

• Classics/Ancient History Blogs
• Inscriptions, Epigraphy, and Papyrology
• Review of Adrian Murdoch's Rome's Greatest Defeat : Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest