Richard Martin’s approach to Homer was the subject of a press release from UWSTL:
Michael Halleran is now provost at William and Mary:
Month: April 2009
Exhibition: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany
From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany
January 25-May 17
Meadows Museum (SMU Dallas)
Exhibition website (not much there; a few general images; elsewhere SMU has a slideshow):
Reviews/Press Coverage:
- Etruscan Treasures From Tuscany (WSJ — includes a nice slideshow)
Training Legions
Another claim about the ancient world, this time from something called Total Health Breakthroughs:
Rocky Marciano did it. Muhammad Ali did it. And many, many other old-time boxers(and old time wrestlers for that matter) did it too.
But maybe the most unique and unusual group to use this exercise — that you never heard of — were the Roman legions.
How do you train hundreds upon hundreds of men to be in tip-top physical shape to go into battle?
Good question.
History reveals these men twisted thin green grapevines together and used them as jump ropes.
I think we’ve mentioned this ‘skipping legions’ claim before, so again we ask … does anyone have a source for this?
Hypatia Flick
Not sure if we’ve mentioned this Hypatia flick yet, mention of which I had misfiled quite a while ago. Agora appears to be a movie about Hypatia, set in the late 4th century A.D. and possibly portraying a Christian-inspired burning of the Library of Alexandria. There’s an official website, but all it seems to have at this point is the following trailer (albeit better quality):
Pet Peeve
I am always bugged when newspapers, which presumably have authors, spellcheckers, and editors, mess up the spelling of a less-than-obscure name from the ancient world, to wit, a review of a Galileo exhibition in the Financial Times (emphasis mine):
Ancient Greek scientific advances did nothing to diminish the power of celestial deities. Pythagorus’s conception of the universe as a sphere is embodied by the Farnese Atlas. A Roman copy of a Greek statue, probably the first three-dimensional representation of a globe, it shows the muscled Titan buckling under the weight of a globe of constellations.
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