March 4, 2010
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Excerpt from the Collegian: Baughan will research and write the final chapters of her coming book. Her work is the first comprehensive study of funeral couches and their social and cultural significance in the area that is now Turkey. Baughan said ancient funeral couches were burial places and made of stone to replicate wooden furniture…
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Interesting item in my box (and making the rounds of various lists as well) … I haven’t had a chance to check it out myself: Free reading and learning web tools released for Greek and Latin by the Alpheios Project. The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of free reading…
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The incipit of an entertaining opinion piece in Stuff: OPINION: The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace to his pals), who famously said, as I am sure I don’t need to remind you, “naturam furca expellas, tamen usque recurret”, which translates roughly as “you can turf nature out with a pitchfork but from all sides…
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A couple of interesting blog posts up at Psychology Today over the past couple of days: Classics Majors Find Their Future in the Past What can you do with a Classics major? … which concludes with a question many of us have heard and/or pondered: But how do you deal with THE QUESTION, that dreaded…
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ante diem iv kalendas martias Festival of Mars (day 4) 51 A.D. — the future emperor Nero is given the title princeps iuventutis ca 254 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaius
rogue classicism 