Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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The great ancient Greek historian and theorist still has a lot to teach us about war, strategy, and democracy. “The future is likely to resemble the past,” Thucydides wrote, claiming that “my work is a possession for all time.” Was he right? Join me, and you can decide.
Several suitors have been foolish enough to compete for Atalanta’s hand, and all have lost their races – and their lives. If even princes can’t compete with her, how can a poet somehow find a way to win the race and capture the heart of the princess of Arcadia?
When Cleopatra and Marc Antony met by the River Tarsus, Antony was smitten. And when Cleopatra went back to Alexandria, he forgot about invading Parthia and followed her home. The two then spent a magical few months in Alexandria, where they threw each other lavish banquets, made bets and compacts, played ridiculous practical jokes on each other and the public–and fell in love. But nothing good can ever stay. The real world came knocking, and soon Marc Antony was forced to choose between his heart in Alexandria and his future in Rome.
Not only does Plato’s Symposium hype up love between men as quite literally godlike, but it also provides us with the absolutely wild idea of Aristophanean soulmates…
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Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Catherine Grandjean, The “Koina” of southern Greece: historical and numismatic studies in ancient Greek federalism. Numismatica antiqua, 12. Bordeaux: Éditions Ausonius, 2021.
- BMCR ~ N. Bryant Kirkland, Herodotus and imperial Greek literature: criticism, imitation, reception. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends that just as the crops are maturing, some internal parasite will destroy them.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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