May 20, 2011
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Plenty o’ ClassCon in an interview at BoingBoing with productivity/lifestyle guru Tim Ferriss, e.g.: I came to Seneca by looking at military strategies. A lot of military writing is based on stoic philosophical principles. The three cited sources are Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, which was effectively a war campaign journal. The second is…
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T’other day we mentioned an item wherein some folks got together in New York and retried Socrates … Time Magazine actually devotes quite a bit of space to the trial itself … here’s what you didn’t see in our previous piece; this actually looks like fun (Bogdanos! Wolfe! Celebulawyers!): […] So the case went back…
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ante diem xiii kalendas junias 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea opens (maybe) 1912 — birth of Moses Finley (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, among others) 1957 — death of Gilbert Murray ((History of Ancient Greek Literature, among numerous other things)
rogue classicism 