Sorry for the paucity of posts this weekend ... I've been finishing up report cards in anticipation of the Grey Cup this afternoon ... in any event, a number of items of interest have accumulated in the rogueclassicist's mailbox this week ... as always, in no particular order:
Adrienne Mayor is going to be interviewed tonight on some internet radio thing called Shadows in the Dark (it apparently will be available for a while after tonight too) ...
William Annis has been busy, putting up a nice little workup of Theocritus 13 along with a transcription of the scholia for that poem ... he's also started a blog-format presentation of Pseudo-Callisthenes' Alexander Romance ...
The Bureau of Public Secrets has put up another essay by Kenneth Rexroth, "On Translating Roman Verse" ... coincidentally, Mata Kimasitayo points us to an essay by Rexroth in Counterpunch: Greeks and Buddhists in Afghanistan
Also this week, attention was brought of the existence of the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature website ... in a related development, we note that Stephen Daitz has a web presence and is selling recordings (in DVD and MP3 format) of Greek Poetry ...
Mata Kimasitayo (thanks again!) comes through again with an item from Harper's: Diogenes on the Folly of Feasting ...
... and to close, I can't resist keeping my eye out for this book noted in the New York Post:
Adrienne Mayor is going to be interviewed tonight on some internet radio thing called Shadows in the Dark (it apparently will be available for a while after tonight too) ...
William Annis has been busy, putting up a nice little workup of Theocritus 13 along with a transcription of the scholia for that poem ... he's also started a blog-format presentation of Pseudo-Callisthenes' Alexander Romance ...
The Bureau of Public Secrets has put up another essay by Kenneth Rexroth, "On Translating Roman Verse" ... coincidentally, Mata Kimasitayo points us to an essay by Rexroth in Counterpunch: Greeks and Buddhists in Afghanistan
Also this week, attention was brought of the existence of the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature website ... in a related development, we note that Stephen Daitz has a web presence and is selling recordings (in DVD and MP3 format) of Greek Poetry ...
Mata Kimasitayo (thanks again!) comes through again with an item from Harper's: Diogenes on the Folly of Feasting ...
... and to close, I can't resist keeping my eye out for this book noted in the New York Post:
Gods Behaving Badly
by Marie Phillips (Little, Brown)
It seems like a great new reality TV show - a gang of Greek gods and goddesses sharing a tumbledown townhouse in modern-day London. But it's really Cambridge anthropology grad Phillips' debut novel. In her kooky world, Apollo is a TV psychic, Aphrodite is a phone-sex operator. And a pair of mortals, Alice and Neil, are caught in an escalating quarrel between the god-roomies.