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Obama is Latin for what?

philagon wrote 1 hour ago: A few days ago, Maureen Dowd, the eternally irritable op-ed columnist for the NY Times wrote a piece … more →

Tags: classics major, College, Greek, Latin, philagon, Philosophy, philosophy major, revelle college, UCSD

If Plato hated Lawyers' stinking guts, then so do I! Part 2

philagon wrote 8 hours ago: The defense lawyer followed up with, “Do you believe there are limits to science?” Mostl … more →

Tags: Classical Studies, classics major, College, Greek, philagon, Philosophy, philosophy major, pirate of philosophical excellencies, revelle college

by request.

carolinefryar wrote 11 hours ago: Instead of translating Pliny. __________________________________________________ Bellum Gallium The … more →

Tags: Politics

Merciful Odysseus absolves his loyal servants

stoa wrote 12 hours ago: In book 22nd of Odyssey Ulysses massacres one hundred and eight of his wife’s suitors, dreadfull … more →

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Law, Ancient Rome, Epic, Greece, greek literature, History, Latin Literature, Life

Tackling Poverty - A Lesson from Ancient India - Blog Action Day Special

navankura wrote 21 hours ago:   The taxes that he [king Raghu] collected were all given back to the people, just as the sun draws … more →

Tags: Sanskrit, Words Of Wisdom, Quotable Quotes, Inspiration, Literature, Blog Action Day, poverty

A Saucerful Full Of "Plod".

sonnywilkins wrote 21 hours ago: It’s still very hard to believe Rick Wright is dead (among others).  It isn’t hard to b … more →

Tags: Music, death, Rock and Roll, guitars, Álbums, critics, Reviews, Relationships, psychedelic

Beautiful Movie Posters

eÆsthete wrote 1 day ago: Smashing Magazine has culled different decades of movie history to showcase this wonderful coll … more →

Tags: Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Notably Nostalgic, Retro, Movies, Posters

JSTOR reviews of German works

cyberdisciple wrote 1 day ago: Here are links to reviews of the books by Snell, Lesky, and Schmitt I mentioned in the last post on … more →

Goal of Studying Classical Antiquity

cyberdisciple wrote 1 day ago: ***I’ve gotten myself started on a topic too large to finish right now.  Instead, I’ll … more →

Tags: General

Weekly Geeks WEEK 214 comments

bkclubcare wrote 1 day ago: The theme for this week’s GEEKiness is FIRST LINEs of novels.   It’s a contest, one t … more →

Tags: Challenge, Weekly Geeks, read-a-thon

Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)

kymberg wrote 1 day ago:             Boudu Saved From Drowning             NETFLIX SYNOPSIS:  Overco … more →

Tags: Comedy, Foreign, 4.0 stars, Movies, Reviews, film, Entertainment, Netflix, DVD

Review of new German book on Fate in Homer

cyberdisciple wrote 1 day ago: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-10-19.html Efstratios Sarischoulis, Schicksal, Götter und … more →

Vergil

Earthpages.ca wrote 2 days ago: Detail of Vergil’s tomb inscription Originally uploaded by sethschoen Vergil or Virgil, prop … more →

Tags: V, Rome, verse, hell, Heaven, Poets, Vergil, Purgatory, Virgil

Sofia and Francis Ford Crappola

poopmovieblog wrote 2 days ago: Sofia Coppola Lost in Constipation The Virgin Pooicides Marie Anturdette Francis Ford Coppola P … more →

Tags: Movies from 2007, poo, Oscar Winners, Cinema, Auteur

Self help books for children?

meopham wrote 2 days ago: I read ’selfhelp’ books. The ones that say ‘this worked for me, it might be useful … more →

Tags: selfhelp, Aesop, eagle, Aquila, Norriss

The 10 Most "Challanged" Books (2007).

sonnywilkins wrote 3 days ago: Straight from the American Library Association.  Sept. 27th through Oct. 4th is also known as the A … more →

Tags: Books, censorship, Literature, Writers

Sarah Palin: barracuda borealis2 comments

andreaskluth wrote 3 days ago: Maureen Dowd I’m trying to figure out how I feel about Maureen Dowd’s column in the New … more →

Tags: Fabius, Rome, Scipio, writing, John McCain, Latin, Maureen Dowd, Sarah Palin

Untitled Blog About Roger Ebert, Criticism, and Classic Movies

yupatuwah wrote 4 days ago: I’ve been watching and reading reviews by Roger Ebert for more than half my life, now. In Juni … more →

Tags: Movies, writing, Conservative, criticism, ebert

Ritwik Ghatak's Komal Gandhar

Life's Elsewhere wrote 4 days ago: Well, the last post quoting Chief Seattle’s speech triggered memories of my MA dissertation on … more →

Tags: Ritwik Ghatak


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