Since we're having television difficulties and no one's awake yet, I've got a chance to catch up on a pile of little things that have mysteriously accumulated over the past weeks (I'll get caught up with book reviews later today or tomorrow ... I'll never figure out why, when I have more time to attend to these things, I actually seem to spend less time doing it) :
Not sure whether I've mentioned recent updates at Aoidoi yet, but there's Mesomedes 3: Hymn to Nemesis and a couple of elegaics from Solon ...
You can still listen to the BBC's In Our Time program on Tacitus (In Our Time broadcasts seem to have a longer shelf life)...
A BBC video report about a Kent publishing house giving its staff Latin lessons at lunch time (the boss is a former Classics guy) ... it takes a while to load
With the big event coming up, folks might want to check out Archaeology Magazine's Ancient Olympics Guide ...
Caroline Lawrence dropped me a note to inform us that Season Two of Roman Mysteries has started and there are clips and other goodies available ...
Lorna Robinson's Latin in the Park initiative was commended in an Early Day Motion in Parliament ...
There's a kerfuffle brewing as Iran gets its nose out of joint over Spiegel's spin on the Cyrus Cylinder ... we'll watch this one, but I doubt we'll say much more ...
And just in case you didn't get the verdict in the Lesbos v Lesbians case ...
Piles of folks sent in the Astronomy Picture of the Day which had Jupiter rising over the ruins of Ephesus (potential wallpaper, albeit with a red line) ...
The CAMWS site has put up a Necrology 2007-2008 page ... we've lost some talented folks ....
Stephen Oakley (Cambridge) is among those who have become Fellows of the British Academy ...
Mike Bishop writes in to inform us that both volumes of Lorica Segmentata are now available online (here's one ... here's the other) ...
Mata Kimasatayo sent in a couple of items (thanks, as always) ... first, an item from Harper's on Cusanus' Human Microcosm ... next, a Roman holiday piece from Salon ...
The Australian webmag The Cud has a piece on Homer's Presence in Australian Literature ...
I'll let folks decide for themselves what they think about the conspiracy theory behind Caesar's Messiah ...
Double-take headline of the week: Helen of Troy Dead ...
The Guardian had a pile of biography/info card type things on various folks under our purview: Homer ... Virgil ... Plato ... Euripides ... folks might also be interested in Camus ... Ben Jonson ... William Golding ...
... and last, but not least, Suzanne Musin alerted us to an episode from Dinosaur Comics (thanks!):
Rogueclassicism: chock full of linky goodness ...
Not sure whether I've mentioned recent updates at Aoidoi yet, but there's Mesomedes 3: Hymn to Nemesis and a couple of elegaics from Solon ...
You can still listen to the BBC's In Our Time program on Tacitus (In Our Time broadcasts seem to have a longer shelf life)...
A BBC video report about a Kent publishing house giving its staff Latin lessons at lunch time (the boss is a former Classics guy) ... it takes a while to load
With the big event coming up, folks might want to check out Archaeology Magazine's Ancient Olympics Guide ...
Caroline Lawrence dropped me a note to inform us that Season Two of Roman Mysteries has started and there are clips and other goodies available ...
Lorna Robinson's Latin in the Park initiative was commended in an Early Day Motion in Parliament ...
There's a kerfuffle brewing as Iran gets its nose out of joint over Spiegel's spin on the Cyrus Cylinder ... we'll watch this one, but I doubt we'll say much more ...
And just in case you didn't get the verdict in the Lesbos v Lesbians case ...
Piles of folks sent in the Astronomy Picture of the Day which had Jupiter rising over the ruins of Ephesus (potential wallpaper, albeit with a red line) ...
The CAMWS site has put up a Necrology 2007-2008 page ... we've lost some talented folks ....
Stephen Oakley (Cambridge) is among those who have become Fellows of the British Academy ...
Mike Bishop writes in to inform us that both volumes of Lorica Segmentata are now available online (here's one ... here's the other) ...
Mata Kimasatayo sent in a couple of items (thanks, as always) ... first, an item from Harper's on Cusanus' Human Microcosm ... next, a Roman holiday piece from Salon ...
The Australian webmag The Cud has a piece on Homer's Presence in Australian Literature ...
I'll let folks decide for themselves what they think about the conspiracy theory behind Caesar's Messiah ...
Double-take headline of the week: Helen of Troy Dead ...
The Guardian had a pile of biography/info card type things on various folks under our purview: Homer ... Virgil ... Plato ... Euripides ... folks might also be interested in Camus ... Ben Jonson ... William Golding ...
... and last, but not least, Suzanne Musin alerted us to an episode from Dinosaur Comics (thanks!):
Rogueclassicism: chock full of linky goodness ...