October 18, 2012
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posted with permission: Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age. By Maria Serena Mirto. Translated by A. M. Osborne. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. x + 197. Paper, $19.95/£19.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-4187-9. Reviewed by Robert Garland, Colgate University As “a general synthesis of people’s relationships with death in the Greek…
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Over at Brain Pickings — one of our fave distractions — Maria Popova alerted us to this massive graphic novelesque effort called Action Philosophers … it includes some excerpts which happen to be within our purview (scroll down past the Cartesian and Peanuts gang): Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form (Brain Pickings)
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This is kind of interesting, from a comparanda point of view:
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From Greek Reporter: One of the rarest sundials dating from the Greco-Roman period was found in Polichrono in Chalkidiki.This sundial is not a usual one as it shows the correct time at any given place. It is noteworthy that in the Ancient Greek world, sundials consisted of a gnomon (indicator in Ancient Greek) in the…
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cassandra (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: preposition: sub , + accusative/ablative => under, beneath http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 18, 2012 mors: death: noun. Example sentence:Vita est brevis; mors longa.Translation:Life is short; death long. http://t.co/SAsLZF7X — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 18, 2012
rogue classicism 