Popculch
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Okay … so I’m primarily horizontal because of assorted back ailments and really am not up to actually blogging (terrible time of year for me … follow me on twitter if you want to see what I’ll eventually be getting to, among other things) and Chuck Jones posts a very old video of 1903 football…
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Even if you’re not a fan of Death Metal, classicist types should find the imagery of the title track of Ex Deo’s latest Roman-themed project of interest: Exclaim (to whom I tip my pileus) also includes a list of tracks on the album (do they call them albums any more?): 1. “Romulus” 2. “Storm the…
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Every so often something shows up in a scan which you never, ever expect to see … in this case, the New York Times has a review of a book called Playbooks and Checkbooks: An Introduction to the Economics of Modern Sports which includes: The ancient Greeks even pioneered a form of the ticker-tape parade…
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As long as I’m in my photo file, here’s something else I meant to post from my trip to Rome — We’ve all seen your standard touristy photo of the Colosseum, to wit: … and we are usually told that all those little arches originally had statuary in them. So, presumably, it looked something like this…
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Lee Siegel writes an interesting item in the WSJ … here’s the incipit: Whatever happened to the Muse? She was once the female figure — deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife — whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. Thus Homer in the Odyssey, the West’s first great work of literary art: “Sing to…
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