Vidi
2008 March 16
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
Frog in a Well – Five Things That Didn’t Happen (But Might Have)
Counterfactual history can be interesting, because it puts the focus on the historical processes that were driving change rather than chance events.
1491: The Origin of Food — A Mesoamerica Excerpt « Oaxaca Cultural Navigator
Can you imagine Italian food without tomatoes? Indian food without chillis?
Settlement and Economy: Their Location, Limits and Movement through the Landscape of Historical Cyprus
Luke Sollars’ PhD thesis on Late Roman to Ottoman settlement in Cyprus.
The Cranky Professor: Historic Photos on Flickr
Notre Dame’s Architecture Library is CC licencing their lantern slides.
Airminded · Rome 1a
Photos of Brett’s trip to Rome, where he makes the Trevi Fountain look far more impressive than I recall.
Looting matters: Greece and Looted Antiquities
David Gill notes that Italian successes in recovering antiquities haven’t been matched by Greece.
Memorabilia Antonina: What’s in an alias? (A post about Doctor Who)
If the Master is a classicist he has a wry sense of humour.
Memorabilia Antonina: 2008 University of London Festival of Greek Drama
Three plays by London colleges, but only one winner.
Early Modern Notes » Pissing off brats. Ha.
How long is a century? 17 years or ten inches?
