June 4, 2010
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Image via Wikipedia The incipit of a piece in the Times that leaves one’s head a-shaking: Once famed for staging Ben Hur-style chariot races, the Circus Maximus in Rome is about to suffer the ultimate humiliation: a beach football tournament featuring players in centurion gear. The three-day event pitting the best of Europe’s beach footballers…
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Back in January/February we featured a series of posts highlighting the discovery of the source of the Aqua Traiana: Source of the Aqua Traiana Found? More on the Aqua Traiana (BBC video) Still More on the Aqua Traiana (more video plus infrom from the O’Neills) … a spectacular find, of course, and the last we had heard, the…
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Slate has a lengthy excerpt from Christopher Hitchens‘ memoirs … a couple of ‘subexcerpts’ might be of interest: I often have difficulty convincing my graduate students that I really did go off to prep school at the age of eight, from station platforms begrimed with coal dust and echoing to the mounting “whomp, whomp, woof,…
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… with a new theme. I kinda like it, but I’m not sure about how it handles quotations. The motivation for this is weirdness happening with my old template for reasons I can’t quite figure out … still not sure I’ll keep this, but I’ll probably see if it grows on me over the next…
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pridie nonas junias 468 B.C. — birth of Socrates (by one reckoning) 218 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of the Great Custodian Hercules (and associated rites thereafter) 105 A.D. — The emperor Trajan departs on his second campaign against the Dacians 204 A.D. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 1)
rogue classicism 