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Romulus & Remus Podcast 25 Jan 2013 | 08:02 am
This week’s “In Our Times” Podcast delves into the wonders and mysteries of Romulus and Remus: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Romulus and Remus, the central figures of the foundation myth of Rome...
Conjugate me a pop song! 2 Dec 2012 | 02:05 am
The song “Paradise” by Wild Nothing is not my musical cup of tea. But I cannot resist promoting a song that takes a break in the middle to conjugate amo in present and perfect indicative. If that soun...
O Tempestates! Some Storms in Latin Poetry 29 Oct 2012 | 01:27 am
From almost as soon as there was Latin literature, Latin poets reveled in providing their readers with spectacular descriptions of storms at sea. They served as metaphors of cosmic and psychological t...
Roman Shipwreck… with food! 12 Sep 2012 | 06:58 pm
Divers discover 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that is so well preserved even the FOOD is intact Fish, wine, oil and grain found inside pots, giving new insight into Roman lifestyle Divers believe ove...
Mnemonic for Second Declension Vocatives 11 Sep 2012 | 08:42 pm
Here’s the mnemonic diddy to remember the morphology of the vocative singular of the second declension (slightly refined): “If it ends in -us, then the voc. sing. is ‘e‘, otherwise leave it be, unless...
Marginalia 4.29.2012 30 Apr 2012 | 11:58 am
From my own personal Mt. Olympus (aka my living room), let’s take a look at the new and notable in the world of antiquity on-line: Sortes Vergilianae & Sibylline Oracle for iOS! “This app provides to...
Felix Dies Natalis, Roma! 22 Apr 2012 | 09:20 am
Rome turned 2,765 years young today! Not an authentic Roman birthday treat. But this is: Ovid describes the Parilia, the festival Romans celebrated to mark the founding of their city. There are cows....
Marginalia 4.21.2012 22 Apr 2012 | 07:37 am
Felix Dies Natalis, Roma! Daniel Mendelsohn and his father retrace the steps of Odysseus: “In the end, we never got to Ithaca—never followed “in the wake of Odysseus,” as the brochure for the cruise ...
Marginalia 3.25.2012 26 Mar 2012 | 02:39 am
An exciting week around and about the World o’ Classics! The Virtual Tour of the Acropolis “is an interactive website that allows various aspects of the historical site to be explored in a unique way...
Marginalia 3.18.2012 19 Mar 2012 | 07:45 am
I thought I might pass along a few of the Classical news, notes, and features that caught my attention this week during my perambulations around the internet (aka the intertextus internationalis instr...
