June 2010
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Here’s another one for your rss reader … the ‘Word Lizard’ has an interesting little blog on puns, usually with some historical connection … the most recent post, e.g., includes the phrase ‘Curculio vespertilio’ ; you’ll have to visit for the context (put your groaning pads on first): The Punder Years – A Pun Blog.
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From a Getty Press release: The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, on view at the Getty Villa from August 26, 2010 – January 3, 2011, is the first exhibition in the United States in over fifty years to focus on the artistic representation of theatrical performance in ancient Greece. Assembling international loans of antiquities from…
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Russell Crowe News | Russell Crowe Is Not Dead.
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Image via Wikipedia But we have to wait a while for the television program: A GLIMPSE of life under the Romans has been unearthed by TV star Tony Robinson and his Time Team archaeologists in the village of Castor. Filming in the historic grounds of St Kyneburgha Church for the BBC show, to be broadcast…
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The incipit of a review of Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass … looks interesting: This tale begins with a Liberal leader and his innovative exploration of the colour blue. Not Nick Clegg and the Tories, but William Gladstone and his concern about Homer’s use of colour in The Iliad and The Odyssey. Gladstone was…
rogue classicism 