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I just store my posts over at Substack here. Though it’s unlikely that I write anything that is offensive enough for me to lose access to them, it’s still nice to have a copy.
A piece of Germanic mythology in Latin
The vast majority of our sources for pre-Christian Germanic religion, culture and folklore comes just from the Norse people. The reasons for this are many and complicated and I am...
Read more...Wisdom of the well endowed god.
Catullus 16 seems to be somewhat of a meme in the online Latin community for being unusually explicit and bawdy. I don’t really know what the reason behind this perception is,...
Read more...Original Here The Battle of Teutoburg Forest (9 AD) belongs to a small number of ancient battles that still hold the popular imagination. The image of legionaries being surrounded...
Read more...Original Here China Illustrata of Athanasius Kircher (1667 CE) is , as its quite descriptive title shows , a work in Latin describing various facets of China , describing its...
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