July 30, 2012
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The Guardian‘s ‘Poem of the Week’ is as mentioned above! Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden … interesting commentary on the translation …
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Apologies for neglecting this feature the past few days … I’m in the process of cleaning up and organizing links etc. in Netvibes in anticipation of the demise of my iGoogle page in the near future. I still don’t have a proper update for y’all, but my spiders brought back a page from something called…
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ante diem iii kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 11) after 101 B.C. — dedication of the Temple to “The Fortune of this Day” (Fortuna Huiusce Diei) and subsequent rites thereafter; presumably this is one of the temples vowed prior to the Battle of Vercellae 69 A.D. — destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Av…
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Orpheus the ancient source.
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History of the Ancient World: Who Were the Sea People?.
rogue classicism 