Popculch
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Tip o’ the pileus to Liz Gloyn who alerted us to this (currently streamed online only) ‘album’ by the Mechanisms: Ulysses Dies At Dawn … it has a folky sort of sound to it, but tells a good chunk of Odysseus’ story …
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From the New York Review of Books: On February 5, The New York Review celebrated its 50th anniversary at Town Hall in New York City. In this recording from the event, Mary Beard discusses the Review’s coverage of the classics from its first issue through to the present day, and the “inextricable embeddedness of the…
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There’s an interesting post at Gizmodo that keeps popping up in my various feeds about the whether the ancient Romans were capable of building a digital computer … some interesting stuff and the author admits being a computer engineer and not a Roman historian. Still, he’s dying to experiment and throws down a challenge which…
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Since we’ve bewailed in the past when people don’t seem to know what a Siren looks like, we should praise folks who get it right, especially in a popculch context: via: Chuck and Beans … by the way, I’ve been collecting images of Sirens and Harpies at one of my Pinterest boards …
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Tip o’ the pileus to He Has a Wife You Know for pointing us to August When the Trees Were Green which featured these things … I can see a pile of readers of this blog go for this:
rogue classicism 