August 2010
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An interviewish/reviewish thing with Margaret Reynolds: Interpreting Sappho – RN Book Show – 17 August 2010.
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I’ve already griped about how my low-bandwidth situation while visiting my mother was incredibly annoying when there was big archaeological news, so by way of praeteritio, I won’t mention it again. Even so, another example of which were reports of a tomb find in Milas, Turkey. The initial English report brought back by my spiders …
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A couple of years ago or so I mentioned the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa, which honours a handful of folks in 400 years (still not sure about that number) of Canadian military history. It includes a quotation from the Aeneid: No day shall erase you from the memory of time (Book Nine). Now, interestingly enough…
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ante diem xiv kalendas septembres Vinalia — the second major wine festival of this name celebrated by the Romans 43 B.C. — the future emperor Octavian enters his first consulship; Octavian’s adoption by Julius Caesar formally recognized 14 A.D. — Augustus dies at Nola 232 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Probus 304 A.D.…
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I’m sure most of you have seen this — it’s been making the rounds these past couple of days — from Wired: *This one features the Moon driving her chariot over a housefly. *I can’t doubt that this made perfect sense at the time. It’s like: you got drunk, and you went to the gladiatorial…
rogue classicism 