March 8, 2010
-
From the Telegraph: Sir Kenneth Dover, who died on March 7 aged 89, was considered the finest Greek scholar of his generation and seemed to have led a life of almost oppressive decorum, crowned in 1978 by his election as President of the British Academy. But in 1994 he published an autobiography, Marginal Comment, which…
-
From the Mirror: If you don’t recognize it, that’s a sort of ‘cleaned up’ version of Francesco Francia’s version of Cupid and Psyche … (photo of the original also at the Mirror article). I guess he liked the ‘victorious’ pose of Cupid, otherwise he might have just used the other (possibly more well-known) , ‘already…
-
ante diem viii idus martias Festival of Mars continues (day eight) 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and companions 1757 – death of Thomas Blackwell (Classical scholar)
rogue classicism 