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Monday, 22 February 2021

Western Classic Texts courses in Nagasaki

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 Chairete! I am not sure if anyone is reading this blog but just out of interest 2 pieces of news: 1. I have been appointed as Specially App...
Sunday, 23 September 2018

Reading Greek

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Xaire! Its been a while but I thought I would try to keep things of one sort or another going to keep the Classics flame or even the Leg...
Sunday, 20 August 2017

Ithaka

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The sea-road to Ithaka – Trials and Homecoming Xaire! I don’t have a lot to write about books 12 and 13 of the Odyssey other than to re...
Saturday, 24 June 2017

Aristophanes Frogs - Not Croaking but Drowning

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Xaire! I have been gradually warming to the Frogs after a second or third reading after initial doubts as to whether it is still possib...
Saturday, 6 May 2017

The Architects of Hell: Homer, Virgil, Dante

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Salve! I am not sure to which circle of Hell I should be consigned for the crime of not getting  round to properly researching for the...
Friday, 7 April 2017

Sophocles Ajax, Unauthorised Violence, Madness and Suicide

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Xaire! We take a look this time at Sophocles ‘Aias, written in about 440 BCE,  during the so-called pentecontaetia, the fifty year peri...
Saturday, 25 February 2017

Ovid has left the building - Metamorphoses and breaking the Pax Ovidiana

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A sunny pre-noon in Las Vegas 2289..AD, you put on your chem- suit and an extra synthetic lung (high grade Kazakh of course) and hover do...
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