April 23, 2010

  • Homeric Bluegrass?

    The conclusion to a piece about the musical proclivities of some Georgetown profs: Professor Alex Sens of the classics department also uses music to teach students about ancient Greece. Sens asserts that just as musical improvisation draws upon a storehouse of musical elements that have developed over a number of generations, so too poetry continually…

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  • ante diem ix kalendas maias Vinalia (urbana) — the wine which was ‘bottled’ in the previous autumn was opened and tasted for the first time, after a libation to Jupiter 248 A.D. — third day of celebration of Rome’s 1000th anniversary

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