Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Friday, July 22, 2022

But how to fix it?

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The new Anxious Bench editor/contributor Malcolm Foley has a very good post up today: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/07/but...
Monday, July 18, 2022

A warning

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Editing an article for a Classics journal (to appear later this year), and ran across this statement, which I think could also be expanded t...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Around the links

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A quick glance at what I've found interesting in the last few days: First, what is the proper use of Thucydides? Is the "Thucydid...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Remember when?

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The atrophy of memory is the commanding trait in mid and later twientieth-century education and culture. The great majority of us can no lon...
Friday, February 01, 2019

Power is seductive

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Calypso, the nymph who keeps Odysseus locked up on her island for seven years, is making a comeback. As are some of the women in the Iliad a...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

The Odyssey

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The New Yorker has a piece on the Odyssey, but not what you'd expect. It's the story (real) of a father and son, with the son being...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Negative commands and choice of tense

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When choosing the present stem [in a negative command], the speaker apparently wants the hearer to understand that he does not agree with th...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Loeb digital

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Just saw this on the Classics list: Along with the Harvard University Press, which publishes Loeb's compact, colorful print volumes, t...