My faithful spiders dragged this one back … it’s connected with the Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 exhibition at the National Gallery and is an interesting reimagining of the Diana/Actaeon thing:
Reimagining Actaeon
Month: July 2012
Joe Paterno ~ The Aftermath
Most football-loving (of the Canadian/American variety) Classicists are probably well aware of the late Joe Paterno’s love of Vergil and the Aeneid. Back when the Penn State scandal broke out, I was monitoring assorted news coverage to see if anyone would be spinning it with a Vergil connection and there were a few. One which came out in January — by John Lessingham — struck me as a bit extreme at the time, but with the news yesterday and with multiple re-readings of it, I think Lessingham pretty much has nailed it. Definitely worth a read again if you haven’t already done so:
- Joe Paterno’s Aeneid (Sports Abyss)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii idus quintiles
ante diem iii idus quintiles
¶ ludi Apollinares (day 8)– games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo
¶ 431 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Apollo outside the pomoerium (and associated rites thereafter)
¶ 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar (another possible day)
¶ ca. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Myrope
Blogosphere ~ Inseparable Particle Compounds
Latin for Addicts: Inseparable Particle Compounds.
Blogosphere ~ When archaeology meets literature…
The Lyre and the Lexicon: When archaeology meets literature….
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