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NEWSLETTER: Ancient World on Television The weekly version of my Ancient World on Television listings is now available. Enjoy! 9:36:31 AM  
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CHATTER: The Passion As regular readers of rogueclassicism have noted, I really haven't had much about the Passion in these pages. Last night, however, the wife and I went and it was a pretty good movie. Not great -- if Zefirelli and Mel got together and made the movie, it would be great. Now since no one in the popular press seems to comment on the Latin -- other than to mention how it probably wasn't historically the language which would have been spoken by the various folks who speak it -- I will. It's not as bad as some folks have suggested. Some of the pronunciation is ecclesiastical, which is kind of strange in context ("Chaisar"?). I did detect (imagine?) that the common soldier types were using a more 'English' word order than Pontius Pilate, who was rather more 'Wheelockian'. Either way, though, it was generally understandable, once you caught on to the accents -- Jesus' Latin was somewhat difficult to understand, but that might have been deliberate, given that it wasn't his 'first' tongue. My only real quibble with the 'Latin' side of things was the way Caiaphas addressed Pilate. Most often, it was as "gubernator", which I don't believe would have been appropriate. Similiter, he once addresses him as "Consul", which also seems out of place. Only once does he address him as procurator. [update: a reader -- thanks RH! -- has reminded me that Pilate's official title was Praefectus; in the Passion, he is never addressed as such as far as I recall] In passing, though, I note that Pilate seems to be portrayed as understanding various non-Latin languages. I'm not sure how accurate that would be ... Some interesting bits of Latin that caught my ear were the soldier saying "Faciam musicam" (I shall make the music) prior to Jesus' scourging and the centurion's "Interfecimus deum" when the earthquake hits. 8:56:09 AM
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CHATTER: My travails Since I just know that folks are wondering about my network travails (of course, all bloggers assume narcissistically that their readers are actually interested in their lives), here's what happened over the past week. I installed high speed internet -- a good thing; it has saved me an hour off the time it usually takes me to put Explorator together. Then I tried to set up a network so my kiddies could play Neopets and not bug me while I'm doing blog stuff and the like. Setup was a breeze, but the router wouldn't connect to SMTP for some reason. I spend all night on the phone with tech support for the router and my ISP -- each blamed the other (to make matters worse, our cordless phone died in the midst of the calls). I returned the router to Business Depot. The replacement was even worse. It would not work at all. I returned it again and it's rather amazing how, if they sell you one that is still wrapped in cellophane (i.e. obviously new, as opposed to one previously returned) it works as advertised. Sqweee! This means I can get to the earlier service at church on time! 8:28:28 AM
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NUNTII: Nuntii Latini YLE's Nuntii Latini does not appear to have been updated this week ... here's a link to their page in case you missed last week. 8:22:25 AM
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NEWSLETTER: Explorator Issue 6.50 of Explorator has been posted ... Enjoy! 8:03:49 AM
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| rogueclassicism 1. n. an abnormal state or condition resulting from the forced migration from a lengthy Classical education into a profoundly unClassical world; 2. n. a blog about Ancient Greece and Rome compiled by one so afflicted (v. "rogueclassicist"); 3. n. a Classics blog. |
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