June 2010
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Image by Dave ® via Flickr No … not the one in California (although I’m sure someone will misread this and use it as additional ‘proof’ that the Romans reached the Americas) … I think this must be the one in Gloucestershire, which is interesting because it doesn’t appear to have been a Roman settlement…
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Image via Wikipedia A call from Harry Mount in the Telegraph: There’s an excellent new report out today by Politeia (which, as any fule know, is the ancient Greek for citizenship). The gist of it is that Latin should be taught in state primary schools. Quite right, I think, and for the reasons they say…
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ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias 212 A.D. — martyrdom of Ferreolus and Ferrutio 1716 — Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad is published 1813 — birth of Otto Jahn (archaeologist and philologist) 1937 — birth of Erich Segal (Classicist, known to Classicists for his work on ancient comedy; known to the rest of the world as the author of…
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Image via Wikipedia A piece on the horrible answers folks get from Yahoo Answers includes this little excerpt: Daniel was fortunate that Matt’s answer was serious. Some responders purposely gave misleading answers. When Kyla asked, “What was the Delian League?”, one responder, phrasing his response in academic prose, told her it was the distance from…
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ante diem xvii kalendas quinctilias Quinquatrus minusculae (day 3 of a five-day festival honouring the birthday (maybe) of Minerva ) Quando stercus delatus fas (“When the ‘trash’ is taken out”) and the Temple of Vesta is closed to the public 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Vitus (and companions)
rogue classicism 