October 2010
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This item from the Classicists list looks right up rogueclassicism’s proverbial alley (whatever that means): Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to a new Classics resource that we have been developing in collaboration with many friends and colleagues over the past few months. Its name is Classics Confidential and it has the…
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Image via Wikipedia From a reviewish sort of thing in the New Straits Times of Michael Macrone’s Brush Up Your Classics: An Informative and Entertaining Guide to Understanding the Most Famous Words, Phrases, and Stories of Greek Classics. (inter alia) Most of us are familiar with Aesop and his fables. He lived in sixth-century Greece.…
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The conclusion to Toby Young’s piece in the Telegraph makes an interesting point ‘Latin recruiters’ might want to make use of: I’ve done some cursory research about Zuckerberg since seeing the film and, needless to say, he’s not the cold-blooded killer he’s portrayed as. Far from being a Howard Hughes character, he has a long-standing…
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Image via Wikipedia Alex Beam in the Boston Globe wonders about something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: Of course you have noticed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s uncontrollable tic — quoting from Virgil’s “Aeneid.’’ He did it twice during a long New Yorker interview and more recently in Wired magazine, where he…
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Abstract of a payfer thing in the Journal of Archaeological Science … seems to confirm somewhat the oft-mentioned claim that damnatio ad metallum was essentially a death sentence: The Byzantine period (4th – 7th centuries A.D.) site of Khirbet Faynan (Phaeno) was a state-run mining camp described in ancient sources as a destination for Christian…
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