May 2009
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Brief item from Focus-Fen: A unique Thracian tomb has been unearthed close to the northeastern village of Gagovo, in the municipality of Popovo, Plamen Sabev, director of the history museum in the town of Popovo, told Focus – Shumen Radio. The tomb dates back to the 4th century BC and is older than the one…
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Lee Siegel writes an interesting item in the WSJ … here’s the incipit: Whatever happened to the Muse? She was once the female figure — deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife — whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. Thus Homer in the Odyssey, the West’s first great work of literary art: “Sing to…
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Okay … even though I really don’t like baseball, I did get all excited when a piece from Newsday landed in my box beginning thusly: Alex Rodriguez made his first visit since December to new Yankee Stadium on Friday night and instantly proclaimed it the finest structure since the Roman emperor Titus opened the Colosseum…
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This one appears to be only in English on Xinhua: Romanian archaeologists has discovered, in southeastern county of Caras-Severin, a complex structure estimated to be 2,000 years old belonging to the Roman culture, local media reported on Thursday. The archaeological discovery has a special importance because it was built very early, probably in the autumn…
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idus maias Festival of Jupiter rites in honour of Mercury rites in honour of Maia the Argei are tossed into the Tiber from the Sublician Bridge …. 251 — martyrdom of Isidore of Chios 392 A.D. — death of the emperor Valentinian II
rogue classicism 