April 2009
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This one was mentioned on the Classics list last week but I didn’t note by whom (apologies) … Some excerpts from a lengthy piece in the San Antonio Current: Our cities grow in size, our awareness of the world around us increases, technology steadily advances, but some things remain immutable, chief among them human nature.…
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Double take headline of the week was: Catherine Keener Has A Baby With Zeus … which now appears to have been “corrected” to: Catherine Keener Has A Baby With Poseidon I suspect the watery one is just covering up for the well-known proclivities of his brother, who probably just wants to avoid another Europa ……
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A piece on the discovery of a vast colony of black coral in the Straits of Messina (which will, no doubt, affect Berlusconi’s bridge plans … and also makes me wonder if we’ll soon be hearing of some shipwreck discoveries), has an interesting closing bit: The town of Scilla, near the site of the coral…
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Our favourite Cambridge Don has a nice piece in the New York Times on getting published in ancient Rome … here’s a tease: Bookstores in Rome clustered in particular streets. One was the Vicus Sandalarius, or Shoemakers Row, not far from the Colosseum (convenient for post-gladiatorial browsing). Here you would find the outsides of the…
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Here’s a worthy project I could see Latin/Classics clubs adapting and/or emulating … from the Indy Star: Latin students from North Central High School will use the tale of an ancient war to launch their own modern war on poverty. From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday at Kids Ink Bookstore, 56th and Illinois…
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