July 2009
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Discovery News’ Rossella Lorenzi is reporting on the rediscovery of 15 life-size theatre masks from Pompeii which were originally excavated in 1749, then stored and forgotten in a Bourbon palace storage room. Mariarosaria Borriello, who made the rediscovery dixit: “They ended up being totally forgotten, and indeed we do not have much information about them.…
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ante diem xi kalendas sextilias 367 B.C. (?)– dedication of a Temple of Concord (and associated rites thereafter) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 5)
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A Globe and Mail writer attended ‘gladiator school’ … here’s the incipit of a lengthy piece: I am clad in a scratchy tunic and sandals, wielding a sword that weighs as much as a small child and peering through the visor of a helmet that threatens to smother me under the Hades-hot Roman sun. The…
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Peter Green (emeritus, UTexas at Austin) has a lengthy review of Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made By Words and Roger H. Martin, Racing Odysseus in the Times of London. Here’s my favourite paragraph (with favourite sentence highlighted): More immediately accessible is a vigorous (and to me very welcome) defence of humanist Latin as a still-viable scholarly…
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The Public Domain site enlightens us:
rogue classicism 