FYI - History News Today!

• Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Greek Machine - Yahoo! News
• Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual - Yahoo! News

FYI: Early Medieval Links

• Carolingian Gospel Book
• St. Gall Monastery Plan

FYI: Newsflash - "Prehistoric Venice" Uncovered near Pompeii

Weird Venice: "Prehistoric Venice" Uncovered near Pompeii

For Fun... "The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)"

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)

(via The Presurfer)

Enjoy!!

FYI: Feudalism, Manorialism and the Agricultural Revolution

• Feudalism & Manorialism helps!
• Illustration of "Scratch Plow"

UPDATED - FYI: Islam

UPDATED: The Adhan: Islam's Call to Prayer, Mecca, Medina -- Beliefnet.com

• IslamiCity.com - The Five Pillars of Islam
• Video: Conditions for the Hajj
• Video: Whirling Dervishes

FYI: The "Ara Pacis Augustae", plus the Imperial Image in Late Antiquity

• Ara Pacis: "Indeed, the altar was real and was used as a site for sacrificing animals, large and small alike. There were drainholes for the sacrificial blood to flow out from the structure." (See at right, from ARA PACIS TOUR)
  
• Late Antiquity: Imperial Image

FYI: Early Christianity & Saint Peter's Basilica

• The Spread of Christianity
• "Old" Saint Peter's: On the left of the road was a circus begun by Caligula, and finished by Nero; on the right a line of tombs built against the clay cliffs of the Vatican. The circus was the scene of the first sufferings of the Christians, described by Tacitus in the well-known passage of the "Annals," xv.45. Some of the Christians were covered with the skins of wild beasts so that savage dogs might tear them to pieces; others were besmeared with tar and tallow, and burnt at the stake; others were crucified (crucibus adfixi), while Nero in the attire of a vulgar aurigaº ran his races around the goals. This took place in A.D. 65. Two years later the leader of the Christians shared the same fate in the same place. He was affixed to a cross like the others, and we know exactly where. A tradition current in Rome from time immemorial says that S. Peter was executed inter duas metas (between the two metae), that is, in the spina or middle line of Nero's circus, at an equal distance from the two end goals; in other words, he was executed at the foot of the obelisk which now towers in front of his great church. For many centuries after the peace of Constantine, the exact spot of S. Peter's execution was marked by a chapel called the chapel of the "Crucifixion."
• 360 Degree Tour of St. Peter's Square
• Virtual Reality Tour of Ravenna! (Gorgeous early Christian art & architecture!!)
• Pictures of Jesus - ReligionFacts
• Christ as Roman Soldier Mosaic

FYI - Ancient Roman Food in the News!

Early Roman Shipwreck Carried Fish Sauce - EarthLink - International News

(Thanks, Mom!)

:-)

FYI: On the "Deeds of the Divine Augustus"

Wikipedia on the "Res Gestae Divi Augusti" (pictured at right)

FYI: Some terms in the "Res Gestae"

• "Propraetor"
• "Curule Chair"
• "Ovation"
• "Fetial"
• "Lustrum"
• "Saliar Hymn"

FYI: Writing...

BTW, the papers do not have to be limited strictly to the stipulated page limit. If they go a bit over, that's okay!

Also, need some writing help? You can check out the SJC Writing Center!

Quote of the Day! :-)

Quote of the Day...

UPDATED: REQUIRED - Supplemental Assignment for Thurs., Nov. 9

As part of your assignment for Thurs., Nov. 9, please read the text of the complete "Deeds of the Divine Augustus" (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) in addition to the pages already assigned in the syllabus! Be sure then to take the complete text into consideration when writing your essay due that day!!

UPDATE: Also, there will be no reading quiz on Adams that day, but do integrate the Adams' material into your essay writing!!