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2009 March 29
Nice to ’see’ the Parthenon in its original ‘context’:
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Classical Words of the Day- castigate February 9, 2010
- disport February 9, 2010
- approbation: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 8, 2010
- vitiate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 9, 2010
- parsnip February 7, 2010
- ignoramus: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 7, 2010
- distrait: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 5, 2010
- today's wwftd is... cinereal February 4, 2010
- vulnerary February 4, 2010
- pecuniary: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 4, 2010
- today's wwftd is... Pessimisterian February 3, 2010
- elicit February 3, 2010
- aubade: Dictionary.com Word of the Day February 3, 2010
- today's wwftd is... procacity February 1, 2010
- collude January 30, 2010
- Nuntii Latini
- Americani arma vendituri February 5, 2010
- Forum ab oeconomia mundi February 5, 2010
- Toyota detrimentum fecit February 5, 2010
- Lacuna nigra remotissima February 5, 2010
- Dani vita sua contentissimi February 5, 2010
- Helsinkium, urbs nivium February 5, 2010
- Ali Chemicus laqueo suspensus January 29, 2010
- Ephemeris
- Fuga e provincia HelmandImpetu Americanorum imminente Afghani in fugam se conferunt
- Res novae in Hibernia septemtrionaliSperant Hibernici omnes contentiones post terga esse.
- De Peruviae eluvieMaciu Picciu catervatim viatores avolaverunt, laborant incolae.
- De comitiis SrilankensibusSrilankae, in insula Asiatica, post Tigridum Tamiliensium feram caedem anxie comitiorum exitus exspectatur.
- Iura hominis violantur!Sodalitas HRW nuntiat numerum terrarum, quarum regimina iurum humanorum defensores aggressa essent, iterum anno 2009 crevisse.
- Auxilia imparia
Haiti, in insula Caraibica, post immanem terrae motum quo multa milia hominum perierunt, fames sitis violentia imperant.
- Calamitas HaitianaCentena milia hominum timentur vitam amisisse ob terrae motum, qui insulam Haiti afflixerat.
- Massud Mohammadi necatus est Teherania accusat Israelianos mortis Persae periti rerum atomicarum
- Tumultus orti sunt in Calabria......ubi mercenarii Africani condicioni suae inhumanae reclamant.
- Valorem bolivaris deminuiDifficultates oeconomicae novae deliberationi regimen Hugonis Chavez impellit.
- Fuga e provincia Helmand
- Classical Blogosphere
- Myth Monday - Percy-us and Cheiron February 8, 2010 (author unknown)
- explorator 12.42 February 7, 2010 david meadows
- On This Day in Ancient History Emperor Marcian Died February 7, 2010 (author unknown)
- Talk February 6, 2010 Michael Gilleland
- Medieval and Modern February 6, 2010 Michael Gilleland
- 2010.02.13: Hyperides. Funeral Oration. American Philological Association. American Classical Studies 53 February 7, 2010 Dimos Spatharas
- 2010.02.12: Bilinguisme gréco-latin et épigraphie: actes du colloque, 17-19 mai 2004. Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 37; série épigraphique et historique 6 February 7, 2010 Eleanor Dickey
- Round-Up: February 6 February 6, 2010 laura-gibbs@ou.edu (Laura Gibbs)
- I, Claudius: Old King Log February 5, 2010 noreply@blogger.com (Juliette)
- Busy beaver February 5, 2010 prometheuscomic
- New Ancient World Content in JSTOR February 5, 2010 Charles Ellwood Jones
- Pompeiiana XXVII.4, December 2000 February 5, 2010 Andrew Reinhard
- Mary Beard on Desert Island Discs February 5, 2010 Mark Goodacre
- On this Day in Ancient History - Augustus Received a Title February 5, 2010 (author unknown)
- 2010.02.11: Homer, The Odyssey February 5, 2010 Barbara Clayton
- 2010.02.10: Early Christian Books in Egypt February 5, 2010 Benjamin Garstad
- Gastrophobia - LAME NAME February 5, 2010 (author unknown)
- Round-Up: February 5 February 5, 2010 laura-gibbs@ou.edu (Laura Gibbs)
- Spartans? February 5, 2010 Steve Muhlberger
- Hesperia Volume 78:4, 2009 Available February 4, 2010 (author unknown)
- Blogs en Χείρων·Chiron
- Roderici paginae Latinae Chironi: Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficāx per exempla February 9, 2010
- El taller de Atenea: Hades......para tí el amor también existe February 9, 2010
- Filohelenismo: Término medio aristotélico February 9, 2010
- El fil de les clàssiques: Ulisses en aigües d’Ítaca, de Joan Margarit February 9, 2010
- El fil de les clàssiques: Listening latin! February 9, 2010
- Els dies de Dèdal: Jornada docent: autors hispans de la literatura llatina a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona February 8, 2010
- Mainake: PROMETEO Y SU ENCARNACIÓN EN EL "GIRALUNA" February 8, 2010
- En aguas de Neptuno: La granada en la mitología clásica February 8, 2010
- En galego aprendemos mellor: 55 mentiras sobre a lingua galega February 8, 2010
- Nihil sub sole novum: Monedas y billetes histórico-mitológicos (I) February 8, 2010
- Latin Fable of the Day
The rogueclassicist is right.
Lighting up ancient monuments is simply turning them into eye candy and actually transforms them into visual monstrosities since a) they were architecturally and artistically designed to be illuminated from above by the natural light of the sun and sky (and occasionally the moon) and b) their once quiet stateliness under a starry sky is vitiated by the garish and excessive illumination splashed all over them.
In addition, the wasted light that is sent upwards into the heavens washes out our view of the cosmos and limits our understanding of humanity’s place in it. That’s hardly fitting for honoring a culture that has given us so much direction in that process.