res gerendae: Eight Paintings of the Classical World.
Month: July 2012
Blogosphere ~ Gildersleeve’s Sonnet on Horace
Laudator Temporis Acti: Gildersleeve’s Sonnet on Horace.
Video of the Moment: Oedipus Rex
So my kid has a test in Oedipus Rex tomorrow and they haven’t watched a movie version yet (ran out of time), so naturally I go looking for one and came up with this gem from 1968 … Christopher Plummer as Oedipus! Orson Welles as Teiresias! Donald Sutherland is in the chorus!!! The picture quality is iffy at times (especially at the beginning), but it’s pretty good …
… and the listing from IMDB
Classical Words of the Day
- incognito (Wordsmith)
- capitulate (OED)
- organoleptic (Worthless Word for the Day)
Latinitweets:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas sextilias
ante diem ix kalendas sextilias
¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)
¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)
¶ 69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)
¶ 133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar — fell to the Romans (?)
¶ 1895 — Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)
¶ 1978 — death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)
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