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| Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
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Vampires of Volterra: The Etruscan Roots of The Twilight Saga |
| The ancient Greeks and Romans also had their share of supernatural figures and demi-gods, including Hecate the witch-like figure and her daughter Empusa, who sucked the blood of the men she seduced while they slept. More. Labels: entertainement, etruscan, roman empire |
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| Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
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Binchester in Second Life |
| One of the principal investigators on the Durham-Stanford Binchester Research Project is Dr Gary Devore, who amongst other research interests is exploring the potential for Virtual Reality can be used to present information about the Roman world. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Monday, November 02, 2009 |
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The Decapolis Cities |
| The Decapolis was a ten-city Greco-Roman federation, or league, occupying all of Bashan and Gilead in northeastern Palestine. The territory was contiguous except for Damascus which some believe to have been an honorary member. More. Labels: entertainement, israel, roman empire |
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| Friday, October 30, 2009 |
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O tempora, o mores! Or, time for an encore |
| Symbol, together with the amphiteatre and circus, of a true capital of an imperial Roman province, the theatre has not fared well in recent times. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, spain, theatre |
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| Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
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MONTEVERDI: L’incoronazione di Poppea |
| The Coronation of Poppea is the last work written by the then 75-year old Claudio Monteverdi, the score of which is long lost and appears only in two copies that we have from about eight years after the premiere, each differing from the other. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.52 |
| A growing trend in Classical scholarship has been to investigate art and architecture as active participants in the "lived space" of antiquity. In her new book, Ellen Swift applies this view of material culture to non-figurative mosaics, dining and toilet vessels, and dress accessories, building in the last two cases on her previous studies in those areas. More. Labels: art, book, entertainement, roman empire |
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| Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
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| Monday, October 26, 2009 |
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Utterly engrossing, suspense-filled Roman page-turner with Cicero as its hero |
| THE HERO of the second novel in Robert Harris’s Roman trilogy is Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), statesman, orator, lawyer, poet, philosopher, jurist, teacher, master-of-slaves, husband and father. Born at Arpinum in Latium, he was educated in Rome and Greece and died at Formiae in Latium. More. Labels: cicero, entertainement, roman empire |
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Roman Wives Behaving Badly |
| A rough guide on how to become the worst wife in upper-class Ancient Rome; a piece of cake for the twenty-first century woman. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 |
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Should Asterix hang up his sword? NO |
| A little-reported ceremony took place a few days ago outside a nondescript apartment block in the Paris suburb of Bobigny. An old man unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of one of France's greatest cultural heroes: Asterix. More. Labels: book, entertainement, france, roman empire |
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| Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
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Chester set to become stage as extravaganza kicks off |
| EXCITED festival managers are making final preparations for a major arts event that will take place in Chester this weekend. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, united kingdom |
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| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
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The Roman Mysteries: The Pirates of Pompeii/The Assassins of Rome (TV adaptation) |
| The Pirates of Pompeii is one of the books I've actually read, so that was a good one to see. It was very well adapted - I especially liked the scene where Felix drives his cart very quickly along the cliff road, and everyone else is terrified, but Lupus loves it. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, video |
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| Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
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Arceologiaviva.tv: Megara Hyblaea * * * |
| Megara Hyblaea, riportata alla luce in questi ultimi 60 anni, costituì uno dei capisaldi della prima colonizzazione greca in Occidente (seconda metà dell'VIII sec. a.C.) ad opera dei Calcidesi, Corinzi e Megaresi. Il documentario ne ripercorre la storia, dalla sua fondazione alla sua distruzione nel 214 a.C. per mano degli eserciti di Marcello in marcia verso Siracusa. Vai. Labels: entertainement, italy, roman empire, scholar, video |
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Eagle of the Ninth updated |
| Shooting progresses on the upcoming film version of Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth. Shooting has finished in Hungary and had now moved to Scotland where it wraps at the end of next month. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, video |
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| Monday, October 19, 2009 |
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Could not miss that one: Hit & Run: It’s the ‘big L’ for Asterix |
| A map of France is cracked by a Roman standard driven into the ground. To one side a magnifying glass focuses on a “Gaulish village” surrounded by four Roman outposts: Aquarium, Totorum, Laudanum and Compendium. More. Labels: book, entertainement, roman empire |
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Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus |
| The Roman senate's proscription of the Bacchic cult, which inspired my novel-in-progress: The consul Spurius Postumius, son of Lucius, consulted the Senate on the Nones of May in the temple of Bellona; Marcus Aemilius, son of Marcus, and Titus Maenius, son of Publius, assisted in drafting this decree. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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For fun: Ancient Man Was Stronger, Faster, Wittier and Better Looking |
| Who hasn't watched Gladiator and then wondered why you don't meet men like that down the local pub? The same goes for those bulging muscles of antiquity that we see in classical art galleries – they've often made me think that, well, they don't make 'em like they used to. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
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0 A.D. development moves to open source |
| 0 A.D. is a free, real-time strategy game currently under development by Wildfire Games. It's cross-platform, 3D and historically-based. More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
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The Beginnings of Wine |
| When did winemaking begin? There are many theories about the beginnings of this treasured “juice” of the grape. More. Labels: entertainement, food, roman empire |
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Free teacher web sites for History topic ‘Romans’ |
| Hail Caesar, we;re off on a Roman adventure. You'll find information on Gladiators, weaponry and the army, mosaics, daily life and images of artefacts. There's a heady selection of top quality links that support work on Celts and Celtic culture including information on Boudicca's revolt. There's not mush-room for much else in this topic! More. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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| Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
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History Cookbook Romano-British * * * |
| Roman settlement in Britain began after AD 43. The conquest of what is now England took almost forty years. In the conquered areas, the Romans built towns, complete with forums, temples, law-courts, bath-houses, amphitheatres and aqueducts, well-constructed roads that crossed the country and elegant villas complete with central-heating. More. Labels: entertainement, food, roman empire, united kingdom |
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| Friday, October 02, 2009 |
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Hi-tech scheme for county’s Roman city |
| An ancient Roman city in Shropshire is set to trial cutting-edge technology in a world-first which could help transform it into an interactive classroom for students. More. Labels: entertainement, re-enactment, roman empire |
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Virtual Tour of the House of Marcus Lucretius |
| New technologies seem promising in presenting archeological material and hopefully the digital techniques can be used in the future also in more scientific context. More. Labels: entertainement, pompeii, re-enactment, roman empire |
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| Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
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A Tour of the Villa - 3D Video |
| David Fredrick, the researcher behind Digital Pompeii, was probably the only classics scholar at the game development conference in March 2009. Why would someone who studies Roman wall art and social history take up game development? Because 3-D gaming technology is especially suited to revealing the experience of daily life in ancient Roman cities. More. Labels: entertainement, pompeii, re-enactment, roman empire, scholar |
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| Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
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Rome, Italy Travel: Summer Along the Riverban |
| Beneath the Celio hill lies a fascinating archaeological and theatrical world that re-creates the atmosphere of ancient Rome as it unfolds amid the passageways, baths and perfectly preserved remains of the temple of Claudius the God, which Nero transformed into the Nymphaeum of the Domus Aurea, now open in the evening for the first time. A strange journey through subterranean Rome, in the charming atmosphere of the Roman houses and the Claudianum, in the company of archaeologists and actors reciting original texts by Latin authors. Labels: entertainement, italy, nero, preservation, roman empire, rome |
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| Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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Pompeii, Italy – The Blast From the Past |
Paul: Yesterday we took an incredible ride on the circumvesuviana – the tongue twisting train that connects the region, and comes equipped with a flux capacitor. After traveling for thirty minutes (and passing an endless stream of dilapidated Neapolitan suburbs) we arrived two thousand years back in time at Pompeii. History buffs will remember that Pompeii was a sizeable Roman town that was unfortunately located at the base of the volcano Vesuvius. On August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii beneath thirty feet of volcanic ash. 1,700 years later, Pompeii was rediscovered, proving to be an archeological find that would have left Indiana Jones speechless (but not Short Round – he would have said something funny).
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The Fragility and Fury of Pompeii |
| After waiting for the (non-volcanic) dust to settle from my assignments, readings and thesis writing, I took some time off today to visit the exhibition "A Day in Pompeii" that is now showing at the Melbourne Museum till the end of October. I have a personal interest to view this blockbuster exhibition as I have visited the site some 15 years ago in 1994 when I toured Europe as an undergraduate. If you wish, you can actually experience Pompeii online with this wonderful virtual walk through that allows you to see what is available in each gallery. Of course, nothing beats the real thing! Labels: entertainement, pompeii, roman empire |
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Titus (1999) - Movie to download |
| War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor’s crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler’s venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus’s daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus’s sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There’s irony in which two sons survive. Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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Turkey's Black Sea coast off beaten tourist path |
| Sile, Turkey - Every summer Turks and foreigners alike flock to Turkey's Mediterranean coast - to Antalya and the Aegean Sea. Few German or British tourists are drawn to the Black Sea coast in the north, although it offers unspoilt fishing villages, secluded bays and extensive beaches along 1,300 kilometres from Bulgaria to Georgia. "Whenever we have time, we go to Sile," said Cengiz, who runs a fish restaurant in Istanbul. Many Istanbul residents pack their things in summer and head to Sile, a Black Sea beach resort about 60 kilometres from Istanbul. They pass numerous villas along the way, and when they arrive they can refresh themselves in water as clear as glass and relax on one of Sile's long sandy beaches. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, turkey |
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| Monday, September 21, 2009 |
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We’re not in Kansas anymore! That’s Roman Live! |
After spending the first 18 years of my life surrounded by trees and mountains and giant moose, I must admit the thought of living in a city, with cars always zooming around and public transport and big scary people that you certainly wouldn’t see walking around in New Hampshire, was a tad bit daunting. However, after spending eight months living in Madrid, I came to love the vibe that a capital city had to offer so I was ecstatic at the thought of having a completely new place to explore when I arrived in Rome.
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Artist Liz Glynn Organizes Live Super-Performance at Arthouse |
| Arthouse at the Jones Center announce the upcoming presentation of 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project. A durational, participatory model-building extravaganza and dynamic history lesson, the 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project is a recreation of the ancient capital city in historical order. Over the course of 24 hours, more than a millennium of Roman history is brought to life at Arthouse. The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project unfolds at approximately 1.238 years per minute, beginning at midnight with the building of Romulus and Remus’ huts in 753 B.C.E. and ending 24 hours later as Alaric and the Visigoths sack the mini-empire in 410 C.E. The city’s rise and fall takes place within Arthouse’s walls, under the direction of Los Angeles-based artist Liz Glynn, and with the help of diverse Austin community collaborators and energetic volunteers. Labels: alaric, entertainement, roman empire, united states |
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Military life and battles of Roman Empire |
Actors dressed as Roman soldiers surround "Goth soldiers" during a re-enactment scene as part of the Festival of Ancient Heritage in the town of Svishtov, some 230 km (142 miles) north-east of Sofia, September 19, 2009. Several groups from Italy, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria took part in the festival re-enacting military life and battles between soldiers from the Roman Empire and enemy tribes.
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Mass media in ancient Rome |
| In ancient Rome, chariot races, gladiator contests, staged animal hunts, and pantomime shows were mass media. A large share of Roman adults were attracted to watch. Advertising and highly paid celebrities arose. Elite men competed to sponsor and control the events shown. The shows had enormous influence on public conversation and high politics.Roman spectacles were regularly and frequently scheduled. Public games (ludi) were used to mark annual religious festivals. By the middle of the first century BGC, Rome had every year about seventy-five formal holidays with public games. Labels: entertainement, gladiator, roman empire |
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| Saturday, September 19, 2009 |
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ESSENCE OF THE LUBERON (8 DAYS) |
| From hilltop towns of the Luberon to the herb-scented trails of Mont Ventoux, we savour dramatic vistas and wonderful Provençal hospitality. Discover the Dentelles de Montmirail, the foothills of the Mont Ventoux and the world-famous Côtes de Rhône vineyards of Beaumes-de-Venise, Vacqueyras, Gigondas and Séguret. Vaison-la-Romaine affords us plenty of attractions to tempt during our three days here; the lazy market square, Gallo-Roman remains - including a 6000-seat Roman theatre – the largest archeological site in France and oodles of time to sip refreshing beverages and people-watch. Labels: entertainement, france, roman empire, theatre |
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La mort en face : Le dossier Gladiateurs |
| La gladiature est un phénomène économique et social fondamental pour la compréhension de la civilisation romaine. Complexe et diverse, elle est souvent caricaturée pour ne voir dans cette pratique qu’une exaltation des penchants sanguinaires et barbares des Romains. Depuis les premiers auteurs chrétiens, ce phénomène est toujours abordé avec une certaine distance et un a priori moral constant. Pourtant, malgré la condamnation de ces tueries, ce spectacle continue à passionner par le biais de péplums qui s’appuient toujours sur la vision moralisante et voyeuriste du xixe siècle. Labels: entertainement, gladiator, roman empire |
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| Friday, September 18, 2009 |
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A Walk Across England |
| When an English accountant named Alfred Wainwright first went to the lonely hills of northern England in 1930, he was a lonely man. But the cool, empty vistas of moor and mountain must have soaked up his own emptiness like a sponge, because the hills were where he found love. Today, many people walk in the footsteps of Alfred Wainwright, whose passion for the mountains turned him from accountant into author. The reason is simple: Wainwright, who died at age 84 in 1991, wrote a series of guidebooks to walks through the wildest landscapes in Britain. One book in particular created a now-famous route through heather and woods, over stiles, past lakes, among sheep and across ridges in the face of horizontal rain, from one coast of England to the other. Labels: entertainement, united kingdom |
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Probing Question: Is football similar to Roman gladiator games? |
| On six more Saturdays between now and mid-November, a caravan of pilgrims will arrive at University Park, Pennsylvania. Many will sport outlandishly colorful attire. Some will appear days beforehand and live in tents, setting up camp outside Beaver Stadium. And on game day, as many as 107,000 fans will crowd into one of the the largest stadiums in North America. Still more will feast and imbibe from their vehicles—a modern ritual called “tailgating,” while listening to the thunderous roar of the crowd inside. Beneath the carnival atmosphere lies the fact these fans have gathered to watch young men hit and bruise one another—a violent spectacle that is one of America's favorite pastimes. Given its nature and its prominent position in our culture, is football the Roman gladiator sport for modern Americans? Labels: entertainement, gladiator, roman empire |
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Corinth and Loutraki |
| Our first stop was Corinth. We spent time at the Roman Archeological site, seeing the podium where Paul the Apostle would come to speak, in the remnants of the Roman forum. Corinth was originally a powerful Greek city state, until the 2nd century BCE when the early Romans came and burnt it to the ground. The city was abandoned for about 100 years until Julius Caesar came to restore it. So the archeological remains are from the Roman times. A Greek archaic temple to Apollo does still survive partially, although it was pre Roman. Labels: entertainement, greece, roman empire, temple |
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| Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
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À Namur, les Romains seront les dieux du stade |
| Ils sont de retour. Qui ? Les Romains, par Toutatis. Pas ceux du camp de Petibonum, mais bien les vénérables légionnaires qui avaient déjà fait étalage de leur savoir faire guerrier en 1999. Le retour de l'armée romaine, on le doit d'abord à l'obstination de Jean Plumier, le directeur faisant fonction du service Archéologie au SPW. Depuis qu'il avait pu admirer les Romains en démonstration sur l'archéosite de Marle, près de Maubeuge, il rêvait de les attirer à Namur. Il ne mettra pas longtemps à convaincre la Ville et son échevin de la citadelle, l'historien Arnaud Gavroy. Et pour s'attirer quelques sesterces supplémentaires, Jean Plumier s'est assuré du concours de la Province de Namur et de la Région wallonne. Labels: belgium, entertainement, france, roman empire |
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Romance Of Rome 1.0 |
| Romance Of Rome gives you another chance to visit the legendary Roman Empire. Love and treachery, adventure and jeopardy await you in this amazing hidden object game. Join Marcus as he travels to Rome in search of the greatest adventure of his life! Romance Of Rome game opens as you learn that imperial relics are stolen and the Emperor promises to marry his beautiful daughter to any person who brings them more... Labels: entertainement, roman empire |
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Roman Theatre and Early Comedies |
| Poets and playwrights of the early Roman theatre who translated and adapted Greek comedies are credited with their preservation. There were two forms of early Roman theatre – fabula palliata and fabula togata. Fabula Palliata refers to translations and adaptations of Greek plays into Latin, and to the original works of Roman playwrights based upon Greek plays. Wearing pallium (Greek cloaks), the actors performed in plays that appeared to satirize the Greeks. In fact, Rome and its citizens were the objects of the ridicule. Labels: entertainement, preservation, roman empire, theatre |
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3D Rome Built in a Day: New Algorithm Harnesses Power of the Flickr Community |
| Less than 24 hours is all your need to build Rome these days: a team of developers from the University of Washington and Cornell University has come up with an algorithm that can aggregate thousands of tourist photos from social network photo-sharing websites and create a three-dimensional virtual city model from them. Highly popular tourist sites such as Rome work well – currently there are more than two million photos of Rome on Flickr. The Washington University team has also used its technology to recreate the cities of Venice and Dubrovnik. Labels: entertainement, roman empire, scholar |
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
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3D Model: Statue of Deified Julius Caesar |
 Statue of Deified Julius Caesar 3D Model. Gilded Bronze Photoreal Statue of the deified Julius Caesar from the Roman Forum in Rome, according to the original representations of it on the Coins struck by Octavianus Augustus. In the package you will find:
A- The gilded bronze statue of the deified Julius Caesar with the Augustan type Comet Star on his head and the augural lituus staff;
B- Representation of Caesar as deified Pontifex Maximus in god Saturn's pose as on coins;C- Marble podium with the dedication "to the deified Julius".
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Ben-Hur rides again |
| Chariots race around a huge arena at break-neck speed... a vast Roman army wields swords and spears... two gladiators fight to the death.Yet this is no scene from ancient Rome but a version of the Ben-Hur story, taking place in the very modern setting of London's O2 Arena. The 90-minute performance is the most ambitious telling of the story since the Oscar-winning 1959 movie of the same name, which starred Charlton Heston. Labels: entertainement, gladiator, london, united kingdom |
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Roman Colosseum is in urgent need of restoration! |
The big world-famous gladiatorial arena in Rome Colosseum or known as the Flavian Amphitheater is in critical condition. It is about 2000 years old and old buildings need restoration. The facade of the mighty arena have started to crumble and pieces are falling down. According to the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemmano it is important that action happens immediately otherwise the arena will suffer the consequences. It will cost at least £ 4.5 millions to keep the building in good condition and Italy is now pleading to its government and other countries to help. Labels: entertainement, gladiator, italy |
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