Popculch
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This one’s been percolating in various papers for the past couple of days, but the Telegraph takes it that extra step by providing the text (which I’ve been waiting for): Mr Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford, will recite the poem that he commissioned for the Games in both Greek and English. The ode was…
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I’m always interested in seeing how folks in different eras portrayed the big names of the folks within our purview and, as it happens, the Metropolitan Museum’s ‘Featured Artwork of the Day’ (via Facebook) is Colin Nouailher’s plaque of Alexander the Great, which forms part of a series of depictions of the ‘Nine Worthies’ a.k.a.…
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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:
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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…
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This is one of my shameless attempts to increase traffic by using the name of a popculch icon in a post … from the incipit of an item at one of those azcentral pages (probably originally in the Republic) : Katy Perry was suspended from school for ”humping a tree”. The ‘Part of Me’ singer…
rogue classicism 