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Day 32 - And Now, for some Roman History... of the ‘bad’ emperors, happily demonised by modern classicists on the basis of gossipy Suetonius (seriously, the guy... of socks. I won’t go into all the annoying arguments that Classicists use to say that they weren’t partners in any... http://serendipity5367.livejournal.com/22247.html Published: 1 year ago (Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:27:18 PST); 2666 bytes Time to play "guess the publication year"νῦν δ᾽ ἄγ᾽ ἀείδοντες παιήονα κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν νηυσὶν ἔπι γλαφυρῇσι νεώμεθα, τόνδε δ᾽ ἄγωμεν. ἠράμεθα μέγα κῦδος: ἐπέφνομεν Ἕκτορα δῖον But come now, Achaean youths, singing the paeon let us go to the hollow ships, let us convey him. We achieved great glory: we slew divine Hektor (Il. 22.391-3) This means that according to Achilles' command the warriors are to bring the slain enemy to the camp ... http://ricardienne.livejournal.com/171771.html Published: 1 year, 4 months ago (Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:58:30 PDT); 1436 bytes Cicero's gloria: a tragedyThese noble sentiments are often echoed in the letters and speeches he wrote at this time. After Caesar's murder, Cicero felt himself in imminent peril. But he was still more anxious for the State than for himself...Finally, in the Fourteenth Philippic , "after the high Roman fashion, (he) spoke weighty and solemn words on the shortness of life and the eternity of glory. This speech, the last ... http://ricardienne.livejournal.com/167483.html Published: 1 year, 8 months ago (Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:00:33 PDT); 1076 bytes breaking news: some academics are wanky and obnoxiousSo my long-awaited Cambridge Companions to Tacitus and to Roman Historiography arrived today. At least one person in the Tacitus one is saying stupid and overly-simplistic things about Tacitus and senatorial martyrs -- NOT THAT I'M SURPRISED. More to the point, there is an astoundingly angry essay by J.E. Lendon about how "Woodman and Wiseman and people like them [i.e. scholars who approach ... http://ricardienne.livejournal.com/165386.html Published: 1 year, 9 months ago (Wed, 12 May 2010 20:30:32 PDT); 3289 bytes New Forex Search Engine to Help Forex Classicists... it down testing chart the basis, look for classicists telling you there is the trend in view to their prolongation, then look... http://king60.livejournal.com/513.html Published: 2 years ago (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:08:27 PST); 24 Kb an awful lot of block-quotingSo, I started actually filling in on-line apps today. Berkeley wants a "Personal History Statement:" Please describe how your personal background informs your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Please include information on how you have overcome barriers to access higher education, evidence of how you have come to understand the barriers faced by others, evidence of your academic service to ... http://ricardienne.livejournal.com/152725.html Published: 2 years, 3 months ago (Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:26:59 PDT); 4856 bytes some angst and some gigglesI can't decide whether it's unreasonable for me to even be contemplating applying/auditioning to two vastly different kinds of graduate program, or whether I should be able to do it, if I were more focused and organized and single-(double)minded. On the other hand, some excerpts from Gwyn Morgan's 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors (Oxford, 2006): No sooner had Helvidius returned, however, ... http://ricardienne.livejournal.com/150038.html Published: 2 years, 5 months ago (Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:16:33 PDT); 1867 bytes So you know those things you realize that when you realize them you realize how dumb you had been being the whole time? One good example is how I didn't realize that the D in the Disney logo was a D until i was 18 or so. So I'm working on my thesis, and I come across this ship in book nine of the Odyssey (Odysseus' tussle with the cyclops, Polyphemus). Everyone has probably heard of triremes ... http://spuma-spumata.livejournal.com/32128.html Published: 3 years ago (Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:52:11 PST); 1038 bytes Lou Reed & John Cale Trouble With Classicists & Starlight
http://vmfdoc.livejournal.com/12130.html Published: 1 year ago (Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:47:13 PST); 20 bytes For Classicists & Scientists alike!The BBC made a documentary called 'Aristotle's Lagoon' ,about Aristotle's 'History of Animals'- a groundbreaking zoological/biological work that has been largely forgotten. It is of particular interest to me, as it is filmed on Lesvos, the site of Aristotle's work, and also my heart-home. I'd recommend watching just for the background- the stark, baked mountains, the whispering pine forests and ... http://athenegenia.livejournal.com/142013.html Published: 1 year, 2 months ago (Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:30:14 PST); 532 bytes |
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