December 14, 2012
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Harry Mount writes in the Telegraph: Professor Richard Sorabji, of King’s College London, has just completed the Herculean task of editing, translating and overseeing 100 volumes of translations of ancient commentaries on Aristotle, written from 200-600 AD. Professor Sorabji began the job in 1985 and, over the years, publication has speeded up. In the first…
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Adrienne Mayor has the deets over at Wonders and Marvels: How to Make a Scorpion Bomb
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I often gripe about how low-profile/unappreciated/misunderstood Classics is in Canada … a piece from the mighty Toronto Star seems to underscore this: Meet Ann McRae McIsaac, basket weaver, and Mark Lawall, expert in Greek pottery, the kind of Canadians the federal government wants fewer of. In an announcement this week by Citizenship and Immigration Minister…
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posted with permission: The Slave in Greece and Rome. By Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat. Translated by Marion Leopold. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. vi + 198. Paper, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-299-28374-2. Reviewed by John G. Nordling, Concordia Theological Seminary Originally published in France as Esclave en Grèce et…
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ante diem xix kalendas januarias 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Heron 283 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus and Abundius
rogue classicism 