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The Classics, In Brief

10-Feb-21

http://venturearchitecture.com/home “Some people here [at the American Academy in Rome] are snobbish about this mess but it belongs to anyone who can dig it.” – Ralph Ellison

Thucydides, Warrior Scribe

03-May-19

Aurogra available at health department A professor at Princeton (was it Bob Kaster? or someone else?) had this taped to his door; I liked it so much, I took it down, photocopied it, returned the original, and had my copy blown up to poster-size. It was in my classroom for years. The internet seems to know no more about this […]

Tangled Up in Thucydides.

05-Nov-15

The third piece I’ve written for Eidolon, this one about Bob Dylan’s apparent discovery of a new book by Pericles (or his general confusion about the Classics).

Cato and South Africa.

06-Aug-15

I was speaking with one of the Classicists at our Latin-immersion workshop. “Cape Latin,” as it is called – the Latin texts relating to the Cape of Good Hope since the founding of the colony there – has been one of his topics, but he has looked more widely into the history of the Classics […]

Farming and Classics.

01-Jan-13

There exists a memoir entitled Of Farming and Classics, which to judge from the title seemed like something I might find relevant.  I wrote a review of it for the University Bookman.