Classical Tradition
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T’other day, Steven Saylor drew our attention to a very interesting sculpture: It’s entitled ‘Saturnalia’ and is by Ernesto Biondi … I suspect you may have seen it at some point in your life in a textbook or internet site explaining what the Roman festival was all about (more photos here). If you look at…
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No, not the movie … the original meaning of ‘pulp fiction’ as in cheaply/mass-produced fiction which was most likely what protogeeks spent time reading after they had read Lord of the Rings but before the internet was invented. Anyhoo, Roman piracy was apparently a popular theme in many such novels and Golden Gazette News has…
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As might be expected, there has been a pile of attention in the popular press being paid to the ancient version of the Olympics and I figured it would be a useful thing to gather a bunch of them together in one post to give you some way to kill time while you were waiting…
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A video from the Classics for All folks, showing the benefits of Latin (amongst other things) at the grade school level … perhaps it might inspire folks on this side of the pond: … the Classics for All website …
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