Category Archives: CLASSICA

Review: The Spivak Reader

Posted on 6 October 2012 by

EPIGRAPH “Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 059

Posted on 22 May 2012 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  059 Tuesday 22 May 2012 知 己 知 彼  百 戰 百 勝 zhī jǐ zhī bǐ bǎi zhàn bǎi shèng If you … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 004

Posted on 3 March 2012 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  004 Saturday 3 March 2012 I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman (31 May … Continue reading →

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Anomaly in Latin tense usage: Ovid Metamorphoses 4.95?

Posted on 2 March 2012 by

Naturally anybody who checks out my blog is welcome to read anything and everything on it.  But I thought it only decent to inform you that unless you are a classicist or somebody else who knows Latin fairly well (and … Continue reading →

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Romance Novels

Posted on 16 January 2012 by

WARNING This blog entry contains sexual language and explicit imagery – if this kind of thing offends you, stop here and exit. Continue at your own risk, and only if you are 18 or over.   SCROLL DOWN     … Continue reading →

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Lepidoptera

Posted on 6 January 2012 by

Some years ago I got very interested in butterflies, or lepidoptera (meaning ‘scale wing’ in Greek).  Because of the fabulous coloration of some species I wanted to paint them (e.g.), and the research I started led me to start thinking … Continue reading →

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“MAUGHAM’S THE POOL: THE CLASSICAL INFLUENCE

Posted on 4 January 2012 by

Classical and Modern Literature 13.3 (1993): 217-227 [Reprinted with the permission of the editors of Classical and Modern Literature] quisquis in hos fontes vir venerit, exeat inde semivir et tactis subito mollescat in undis. Ovid Metamorphoses 4.385-386 Whatever man enters … Continue reading →

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Review of Walter Burkert “Homo necans”

Posted on 3 January 2012 by

Review of Walter Burkert Homo necans.  Interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 32. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1972. Pp. xii, 356. DM 88. First published in Classical World  67.5 (March 1974) : 294-5. [Republished here … Continue reading →

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On Latin bōs

Posted on 2 January 2012 by

“On Latin bōs” Historische Sprachforschung 101.1 (1988): 127-137 [Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht] NOTE: Go to the bottom of this article for the NOTES. On Latin bōs 1 Comparison among Greek, Latin and Germanic reflexes of PIE … Continue reading →

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2011 in review

Posted on 1 January 2012 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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