Category Archives: Classics

Protected: Attis by the Thames

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Liddell & Scott, A Little About Both

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Veni Vidi Juicy

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Donec Rursus Impleat Orbem

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: A Tide in the Affairs of Men

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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“Naked We Stand on the Naked Ground”

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

I have been cleaning out my office and found this item among some papers I had inherited when I became chair.  It is poem about Statius’ Thebaid by my former colleague and well-loved Sewanee Classics professor, Bill Bonds.  It is … Continue reading →

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Protected: Concerning Flowers and Soldiers

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Leda in the News

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

In connection with a recent auction at Sotheby’s, there’s a piece on the arte10 website today about the colored steel panels of Leda and the Swan that pop artist Roy Lichtenstein made for the bathroom in gazillionaire Gunter Sachs’s penthouse … Continue reading →

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Venus, Vulcan, Mars, and Joe

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, but carried on a long-standing affair with Ares.  Neither god was happy, of course, with the idea of the goddess being with the other. What are we to make of it?  On the one hand, … Continue reading →

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Currency & Current Events

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

“If Greece leaves the euro, the most likely interim currency is the existing euro overprinted with a Greek delta symbol (for ‘drachma’), or possibly with a corner clipped.”  So speculated yesterday’s Independent.  The intentional defacing, or rather “re-facing,” of currency … Continue reading →

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