Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
I have just stumbled upon a couple of very nice photographs of some very, very nice sculptures in the Louvre. Here’s one: The image is on Picasa, here. Blessedly the photographer, Julianna Lees, has also photographed the notice boards that went with the images, and written a note: Louvre, New Galleries, The Roman Empire in […]
I found a picture of Mithras killing the bull online today. There’s loads of photos on the web, of various monuments, all slightly different. Identifying them is fun! Anyway, using the lettering “Alexander”, that I could see on the photo, I did a search in the PDF’s I have of Vermaseren’s CIMRM– collection of all […]
Just busy working on the Roman cult of Mithras pages. Adding comments using Discus is easy. Adding “like” buttons for Facebook or Google+, etc, is much harder than you might think! I spent a little time today on Picasa, the online photo sharing site. I searched for “Mithras” and added a comment with the CIMRM […]
Just discovered that Jaime Alvar Ezquerra and his publisher Brill have done something marvellous with Richard Gordon’s translation of his book Romanising oriental gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras (2008). I needed to consult it, and Google books gave me so very little with which to do so. […]
A correspondent reminds me that letter 100 in the Collectio Avellana, a medieval collection of papal letters, is a letter by Pope Gelasius to the senator Andromachus, justifying the abolition of the ancient Roman festival of the Lupercalia. I mentioned it here, but then forgot all about it. By chance another correspondent wrote on a […]
I’ve spent some time working on the security of the Mithras site. This now seems to be working, but we will see. On Saturday I logged out and made sure that every page had some kind of security check. No vandalism occurred yesterday, therefore. Today I added a login page and password. The vandal made […]
I’ve continued to add a few photographs of Mithraic monuments, with their entry in the CIMRM, to the new Mithras site, The Roman cult of Mithras. It’s become increasingly clear that the approach that I have been following with these is not quite right. What I have at the moment is one web-page per monument. […]
It’s remarkable how much one can achieve in a few dedicated days. I’ve managed to get my new Mithras site up and functional, although far from complete. It may be found here. https://www.roger-pearse.com/mithras I don’t think that there is very much more to do to the PHP scripts, which is nice. The content needs to […]
It is now Christmas Eve. A minority of people will be sat at home, in a traditional Dickensian family circle, waiting for Christmas. In rather more households there will be excited children rushing around, and all blessing to them and their harried parents. But for a great many people, including most people who spend their lives […]