May 9, 2013
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Found this one in the Wine Spectator: Harvest season may have been their busiest time of year, but wine was the last thing on the minds of the 54 people huddled in a room of Oplontis Villa B in A.D. 79 as they looked out to sea in vain for a ship. In happier times,…
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… no, not poetry, like I originally typed. Interesting project at the University of Arizona: On a sunny morning on the University of Arizona campus, art student Steve Carcello, dressed in a clay-spattered T-shirt and sunglasses, steps up to what might look to the casual passerby like a round wooden table. In moments, the “tabletop”…
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posted with permission Invisible Romans. By Robert Knapp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. 400. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06199-6. Reviewed by Sandra R. Joshel, University of Washington Robert Knapp’s Invisible Romans presents an engaging and informed picture of the lives of “the great mass of people who lived in Rome and its empire” in the…
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posted with permission Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets. By Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Susan A. Stephens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 328. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-00857-1. Reviewed by Marco Fantuzzi, Columbia University Callimachus’ poetry has become the perfect touchstone for classicists against which to determine other…
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ante diem vii idus maias Lemuria (day 1) — a Roman festival involving assorted rituals to keep the ghosts of one’s ancestors happy
rogue classicism 