November 20, 2012
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Just a note in passing … Rome apparently is trying to deal with those flocks of noisy starlings which invade the city every year: Light-and-sound attacks used against Rome’s starlings (Phys Org) … although the article is oddly (as John McMahon, who merits a tip o’ the pileus for sending this in notes) depicts a…
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posted with permission: Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage, edited by Peter Brown and Suzana Ograjenšek. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 460. Hardcover, £93.00/$160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-955855-1. Reviewed by Marianthe Colakis, Townsend Harris High School “Old dead legends! How can we go on forever writing about gods and…
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Over at History.com is a top tennish sort of list: 10 Innovations That Built Ancient Rome … nothing new for readers of rogueclassicism, I suspect, and you might find little things to quibble with here and there. The stock photo of a Latin inscription (which seems rather later than the period they’re talking about) has…
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posted with permission: Philodemus: On Poems, Books 3–4. With the Fragments of Aristotle, On Poets. By Richard Janko. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 629. Hardcover, £105.00/$175.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11016-7. Reviewed by David Sider, New York University Is traveling summer after summer to Naples in order to read the world’s most…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Virginia Knight who sent in a piece from the Guardian about the first acts of Bristol’s newly-elected mayor … right at the end, we read: […] Ferguson completed his speech by asking everyone present to join him as he took the oath made by young men of Athens when they…
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