May 21, 2012
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Of course, rogueclassicism readers are well aware that all the sorts of thing that fills the airwaves with chatter about this or that Kardashian or Lohan or Gaga or whatever would have been perfectly familiar in ancient Rome, but Johan Kugelberg had a nice piece for the Independent blog which is worth excerpting … first,…
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Back in April, a certain Jesse Vader dropped me a note: Because the people at Urban Distribution have been very helpful in providing access to the movie Medee Miracle for my Latin class here in Colorado, as we analyze different versions of the Medea myth, including Euripides, Ovid, Jose Triana, and Tonino de Bernardi, I…
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As I wade ever more deeply into my mailbox, I find notice that the (always useful) Gnomon biblographic database is now available in English … I think I had mentioned this in a Blogosphere post, but just in case you missed it and want to give it a try: Gnomon Online
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Interesting item — there’s possibly hubris or a bit of Greek or Latin poetry lurking in here — from the UK version of Wired: The mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, has approved the first stages of a plan to drill into the Campi Flegrei caldera, a so-called “supervolcano” in the south of Italy. The…
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As long as I’m poking around their archives, here’s a couple more podcasts of interest from ABC Tasmania (I haven’t listened to these, but I’m assuming — as in previous forays — the player might not work, but the download does): Julius Caesar and the ides of March. (Geoff Adams) Marathon and how it changed…
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