Comments on: Principum Amicitias

By: Principum Amicitias « EcBlogue: A Classics Blog

Principum Amicitias « EcBlogue: A Classics Blog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:06:53 +0000

[...] a full exegesis of the Horatian context at the NYT Lede blog, as well as discussion on Rogue Classicism. See what YOU think! [...]

By: Clara

Clara — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:45:14 +0000

But my quick reading of the poem as a whole makes it look like a request to Pollio to quit writing tragedy — so if it IS a painting of Shakespeare, and the words WERE recognizable as Horace, that would give it a whole new sense, wouldn’t it?

By: rogueclassicist

rogueclassicist — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:44:35 +0000

… fair enough!

By: Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:42:55 +0000

[...] a blogger writing under the name rogueclassicist pointed out on his blog that this is really “more a translation of the whole passage” from the Horatian ode [...]

By: Deborah Mends

Deborah Mends — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:45:04 +0000

Hello Rogue Classicist,

Can’t resist saying…the authenticity of the painting doesn’t impinge on the Latin inscription; nothing has definitively proven that the painting is indeed of Shakespeare. The words are merely part of the awful lot of circumstantial evidence such as the dating of the wood panel, the painting techniques, and the style of clothing setting it in the right period, and the existence of what are now understood to be copies of this painting, which in fact was long thought to be a painting of – Sir Walter Raleigh! The problem being that it was discovered that one of the said copies, the Janssen, had had his hairline tinkered with and Shakespeare’s age and date added – um – much later…

Just had a little wander around – cool site!

Deborah Mends
http://ateliermends.blogspirit.com/