February 15, 2010
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Excerpts from an interesting piece at the New York Times’ Paper Cuts Blog: There’s a scene in David Malouf’s “Ransom” — a novel based mainly on Homer’s “Iliad” — in which King Priam of Troy is slaughtered by Neoptolemus, the son of the Greek hero Achilles. That episode, which is not described in the “Iliad,”…
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Baseball and Homer Part One Homer and Baseball, Part Two | TYU.
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The skinny: a Roman second style painting of a priestess which was stolen from the villa of Asellius at Pompeii (some time prior to 1997) turned up at Christie’s in New York. Here’s the incipit: Tornerà a Pompei l’affresco con la sacerdotessa, recuperato a New York, presso la casa d’aste Christie’s, dai Carabinieri del Reparto…
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In medias res: At the end of Hercules: The Thracian Wars, our hero and his band of adventurers (or mercenaries, if you’re feeling uncharitable) were off to Egypt to seek more fortune. That’s where this mini-series begins, on a slow boat to the Delta. Moore uses Iolaus the charioteer as his narrator, which is a…
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Interesting story: The Roman god of the forge presided over plenty of “I Do’s” on Valentine’s Day. Seven weddings were held before the 50-ton Vulcan statue in suburban Birmingham on Sunday. Spokeswoman Audra Bean says the couples wed as part of Vulcan Park’s “I Do With A View” event. This is the first time the…
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