Conference on Roman Amphitheatres Slated- January 14, 2007 The conference, Roman Amphitheatres And Spectacula: A 21st Century Perspective is organised by English Heritage and Chester City Council and will be held at Chesters Grosvenor Museum on February 17-18 2007.Speakers from around the world have been lined up to showcase new research and stimulate debate about amphitheatre studies. Details of new amphitheatre sites found across the Roman world will be revealed and the organisation of the spectacles, like gladiatorial combat, will also be...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/01/conference-on-roman-amphitheatres.html Origins of the Huns debated- January 13, 2007 This week I started listening to a book about Attila the Hun and the impact of the Huns on the decline of the Roman Empire. As most of my study has focused on the Republican Period, I am still relatively uninformed about the late western Imperial Period except what I have gleaned from watching the TV miniseries "Attila" and reading a well-informed novel by a retired Canadian history professor, Boris Raymond, "The Twelfth Vulture of Romulus".Therefore I was unfamiliar with theories about the...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/01/origins-of-huns-debated.html |