Author Archives: Uncomely and Broken

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About Uncomely and Broken

I am a classicist in Sewanee, Tennessee.

In Search of Elijah Smith: Glastonbury

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

If you’ve been following my inquiries (here and here) into the mysterious inscription in my old edition of Cicero, you know that I’ve pinpointed Glastonbury, CT, as the place where all the principals lived. I was at Yale with some students … Continue reading →

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Little Mystery Postscript

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

So I’ve done a little sleuthing about the characters mentioned in my last post who appear on the mysterious inscription in my 1750 edition of Cicero. I had looked on the British DNB, thinking these folks lived in England. I … Continue reading →

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Little mysteries in an old edition of Cicero

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

See this update How this book came into my possession, I really can’t say, but it’s probably the oldest one I own, a copy of select orations of Cicero (together with Asconius’ commentary) as well as De Senectute and De … Continue reading →

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“The American Cincinnatus”

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, “The American Cincinnatus” (1919) When I was a kid, I picked up a copy of the 1932 Georgetown yearbook for a dime at a second-hand store my mother and I used to go to. Being a … Continue reading →

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“New Greeks at Old Sewanee” (TIME Nov. 9, 1962)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Time’s piece on a joint Classics-Phys Ed class from November, 9, 1962 (pp. 55-56)

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Protected: Crap about the muslins

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: I’ll be blasting you

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Sabine Women & Bride-napping

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

The custom of kidnapping women for marriage, memorialized in Livy’s account of the Sabine Women’s abduction, is not confined to antiquity.  A former student of mine, Gambrill, was in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan, wrote the following to me about … Continue reading →

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Dante Purgatorio cantos 22-23 cartoons

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

About 20 years ago, former student of mine at Boston College made these cartoons for me of Purgatorio cantos 22-23, on the Prodigal and the Gluttonous. She dashed them off, but I think they’re really wonderful.

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Hecuba’s Mother

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

A review from 2003 of two new books of Greek myth. I don’t remember writing it and I know it was never published.  The Emperor Tiberius used to like to play a trick on the professors who made up a … Continue reading →

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