Today in the Classical Blogosphere:
Sympotica Graecolatina tells us (via quotes, of course) of the difference between silphium and asafoetida ...
I can't seem to get through to Dr. Weevil or Curculio this a.m. except via Bloglines, but on the chance that it's working later, it appears today's installment of Ioci Antiqui is at Dr. Weevil ...
N.S. Gill at About.com has some enlightenment from Epictetus about training for the ancient Olympics ...
Res Publica et Cetera makes known the existence of a new blog written in Latin -- Commentarium meum -- which appears to have been around for a while (it has a medieval/ecclesiastical bent, it appears) ...
Again, a bit out of our time period, but interesting nonetheless, Bread and Circuses points to a number of links associated with an exhibition of the Ravenna mosaics at Dresden ...
Stepping a bit further out into the internet, at our Classics Central Forum, ED has posted something with a couple of announcements of interest ... first is a call for participants for future performances/readings at the APA/AIA; there is also mention of an announcement list for things having to do with ancient drama.
Still further out, various lists have been abuzz with word that there was some Latin on NPR's Prairie Home Companion ... it's Robert Sonkowsky reading Horace Odes 1.22 and is roughly eleven minutes into the first segment. GK talks about his first Latin class in the minute or so preceding the reading. And as long as you're there, it was mentioned on the Latinteach list that there's a reading of a chunk of the Odyssey in the archives from 2002 at the PHC too. I thought I had mentioned a couple others at rc in the past few years, but I can't seem to find them right now ...
We also note (and understand the reasons for) Classicist David Wharton is shutting down his A Little Urbanity blog ...
And a couple of 'marginal' news items:
... Stars and Stripes has a touristy thing on Herculaneum, if you're into reading that sort of thing ...
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a paper presented by J. Rufus Fears presented to the Heritage Foundation which compared the U.S. to Rome ... a video of the conference is now available (I haven't watched it, so I can't comment)
Sympotica Graecolatina tells us (via quotes, of course) of the difference between silphium and asafoetida ...
I can't seem to get through to Dr. Weevil or Curculio this a.m. except via Bloglines, but on the chance that it's working later, it appears today's installment of Ioci Antiqui is at Dr. Weevil ...
N.S. Gill at About.com has some enlightenment from Epictetus about training for the ancient Olympics ...
Res Publica et Cetera makes known the existence of a new blog written in Latin -- Commentarium meum -- which appears to have been around for a while (it has a medieval/ecclesiastical bent, it appears) ...
Again, a bit out of our time period, but interesting nonetheless, Bread and Circuses points to a number of links associated with an exhibition of the Ravenna mosaics at Dresden ...
Stepping a bit further out into the internet, at our Classics Central Forum, ED has posted something with a couple of announcements of interest ... first is a call for participants for future performances/readings at the APA/AIA; there is also mention of an announcement list for things having to do with ancient drama.
Still further out, various lists have been abuzz with word that there was some Latin on NPR's Prairie Home Companion ... it's Robert Sonkowsky reading Horace Odes 1.22 and is roughly eleven minutes into the first segment. GK talks about his first Latin class in the minute or so preceding the reading. And as long as you're there, it was mentioned on the Latinteach list that there's a reading of a chunk of the Odyssey in the archives from 2002 at the PHC too. I thought I had mentioned a couple others at rc in the past few years, but I can't seem to find them right now ...
We also note (and understand the reasons for) Classicist David Wharton is shutting down his A Little Urbanity blog ...
And a couple of 'marginal' news items:
... Stars and Stripes has a touristy thing on Herculaneum, if you're into reading that sort of thing ...
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a paper presented by J. Rufus Fears presented to the Heritage Foundation which compared the U.S. to Rome ... a video of the conference is now available (I haven't watched it, so I can't comment)