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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.
Vergil had wished it so.
Vergil had wished it so. Fig: Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598) I would certainly not be exaggerating if I say that every Latin learner learns the opening of...
Read more...A review
A review (This review grew in its telling until it came to encompass both more and less than I expected and nearly reached the length of a short novella. Still it is defective in...
Read more...by John Brough
by John Brough Homer_British_Museum.jpg (635×800)") Bust of Homer Sanskrit uses, in the main, quantitative metres for poetry that are in principle almost identical to the one...
Read more...English translation of Śokavinodana attributed to Aśvaghoṣa
English translation of Śokavinodana attributed to Aśvaghoṣa The first Sanskrit poet that wrote kāvya style poetry, either epic or drama, that we still possess in any substantial...
Read more...A piece of Germanic mythology in Latin
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...
Read more...Wisdom of the well endowed god.
Wisdom of the well endowed god. Priapus - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fig: A 1st BCE mosaic from House of the Vettii in Pompeii Catullus 16 seems to be somewhat...
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