July 2009

  • When Classics Go Bad

    … or something like that. TMZ alerts us to someone claiming to be the reincarnated goddess Venus de Milo who has brought a lawsuit against Hugh Hefner for something. As you can tell, this one’s really bizarre (and if someone had emailed it to me, I’d be checking Snopes and other sources; it might eventually…

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  • Another Comic: Athena

    Dynamite Entertainment has a new mini-series based on the goddess of Wisdom: The incipit of a review at Comic Book Resources: Though they originated thousands of years ago, the myths and legends of ancient Greece still serve as the gateway drug for fledgling fans of all kinds of adventure fiction in the modern day. In…

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  • Lengthy and interesting article by Taylor Holliday on Classics — past and present: Janus Rising (reprinted at Clarksville Online as well)

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  • As most readers of rogueclassicism are aware, all those wonderful stories which are embraced under the category of ‘myth’ were often told in poem — or more accurately — song form. With Myth Songs, the multi-talented Nick Humez has put together a CD version of songs  he originally wrote to be sung to his myth…

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  • Pompeiiana Newsletter

    Not sure if folks have noticed in the Classical Blogosphere sidebar that Andrew Reinhard has been posting back issues of the pioneering Pompeiiana newsletter … if not (or if so), folks will be interested in this missive AR sent out yesterday: This is a quick note to say that 100 issues of Pompeiiana Newsletter are…

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