Re: Weed of the Day
Well, Ancient Rome may not have changed much since 1978, but what we
know about it has. A cursory search of information about ancient Rome
yielded these new discoveries. For example:
More than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas were found buried on
top of each other, raising questions of why so many people were buried
at what appears to have been the same time, and why the city's elite,
who were customarily cremated, would have been preserved in this way.
Tests are underway to determine whether they might have been victims of
an epidemic or some sort of violent death. ("Rome's oldest catacombs."
History Today 56.7 (July 2006): 9(1). Junior Edition. Gale. Waterloo
Catholic DSB. 6 May 2008)
I'd say that discovery in itself is interesting and new, and the
information that will be available after further research will likely
reveal even more new information that will not appear in a thirty year
old book.
And the following piece of information would likely be found interesting
by many of my students:
CAT scans revealed that the gladiators had sustained very few multiple
injuries or mutilations. That finding suggests that gladiatorial combat
was not bloody and brutal--that its participants observed strict rules
of combat, as modern boxers do. ("Gladiators played fair." Current
Science, a Weekly Reader publication 91.16 (May 5, 2006): 13(1). Junior
Edition. Gale. Waterloo Catholic DSB. 6 May 2008)
Jill Marks (MLIS)
Library Technician
St. Brigid Catholic School
Ayr, Ontario
St. Gregory Catholic School
Cambridge, Ontario
jill.marks@wcdsb.ca
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Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:01:51 -0400
From: "Hastings, Jeff" <HASTINGJ@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM>
Subject: Re: Weed of the Day[Spam score: 8%]
Then again, I haven't been there in a while, but they say Ancient Rome
has remained virtually unchanged since 1978...
Ba-Dum-Pah! But seriously, folks, the biggest difference between that
title and one on the same topic published thirty years hence is that the
former probably contains what would now be considered a surfeit of text.
Right?
Jeffrey Hastings, SLMS=20
Highlander Way Middle School
hastingj@howellschools dot com
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Just to show how badly my collection needs weeding, see what I found
today:
Modern Knowledge Library (series)
Ancient Rome
Copyright 1978
Heidi L.
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Heidi Landskroener
H.Landskroener@gmail.com
Librarian, St. John Lutheran School
South Euclid OH
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