January 7, 2011
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Brief item in the Gambit: In January 2007, The New York Times ran a guest editorial by Randy Newman. It was, appropriately, the lyrics to a song, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” which condemned the current state of American politics through a clenched-teeth grin, belittling modern leaders in light of the more…
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I don’t know which is more stupid … this claim or the fact that a news organization would actually give it any attention at all (to say nothing of a county board of some sort). From the CarmiTimes: An Iuka man who believes the lost Tomb of Alexander the Great may be located in extreme…
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Umit Dhuga at Calvin has been working on a project related to tragic choruses of elderly folk: His long study of the choruses in Greek drama has led Umit Dhuga to the following question: “Why are so many choruses composed of men who limp and complain about their decrepitude?” he asks, Dhuga, a Calvin professor…
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Just the other day I was wondering what my former prof Ross Kilpatrick was up to … a news item from Queen’s University suggests interesting things: Queen’s University Classics professor emeritus Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch. The…
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ante diem vii idus januarias 43 B.C. — dies imperii (officially) of Octavian ?? A.D. — the future emperor Tiberius becomes one of the VIIvir epulonum
rogue classicism 