Category Archives: Classics

Twilight of the Demigods: Review of “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

This review originally appeared in the Classical Association of the Middle West and S oth (CAMWS) Newsletter, Spring 2010; I’m re-posting it in light of Rebecca Mead’s recent New Yorker article, “The Percy Jackson Problem,” of October 22, 2014 It … Continue reading →

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In the Form of a Question

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Below is the text of some remarks I was supposed to give to the Senior Class at Sewanee this spring but never did–when I arrived to Cravens Hall, the banquet had been called off because of a tornado warning!  How … Continue reading →

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Protected: Bye Bye Burdies?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Exiting Buggy Top

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

We hiked to Buggy Top Cave yesterday, just south of Sewanee off the Sherwood Road.   This is a phenomenal cave to visit, with an eighty foot mouth and a creek running through it. Buggy Top was closed for a while, … Continue reading →

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Protected: Diomedes and Glaucus in Fortaleza

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: My World Cup Journal 2014

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Beatings and Latin again

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Saturnalia and American Slavery

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

The Roman festival of the Saturnalia, “the best of days,” was celebrated between December 17th and 25th as a period of carnivalesque license. The world was ritually turned upside down, masters served slaves, and freedom of speech was encouraged. The … Continue reading →

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Lines Written in the Ashmolean Museum

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Father and young sons Looking at Laocoön Museum torture  

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Everybody Needs the Gospel and Everybody Loves Sausage

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

So, this past weekend, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South conference was sharing space at the Waco Convention Center with the Predator & Wild Hog Expo and the Modern Sporting Arms Expo. It made for an unlikely … Continue reading →

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