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• Ennius Project 2009, December 20
  Since I'm getting into early Latin poetry, I have in mind to read a bunch of Ennius. I plan to post a few fragments, with a translation, and write up short comments on aspects that intrigue me. I follow the organization and numbering of the Skutsch commentary.Ennius was born in Rudiae in 239 BC. He was Messapian by birth and perhaps partly Oscan; his si […]
• Mine Blog, bereft of life it is not 2009, December 19
  Returned to the blogosphere I have; freed from the madness that was the fall semester.Posts to follow shortly. […]
• School Starts Tomorrow 2009, September 1
  Well, my classes start tomorrow, and the year is shaping up to be a fascinating, but rather intense one. I'm taking two Greek classes; in one we're reading Lyric Poetry and the other is Book 24 of the Iliad. Also on the menu is a Latin class in which we're doing Seneca's play Thyestes as well as an independent study in Sanskrit. I'm […]
• Why Vladimir Horowitz is a badass. 2009, August 26
  Horowitz is probably my favorite classical pianist; his interpretations are at one time fiery and have sort of a nervous energy about them, and at another soft and whimsical. This, however, is not what makes him a badass.In 1988 Horowitz was nominated for (and won) a Grammy award for his recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. However, he skipped o […]
• Mesomedes I 2009, August 22
  In the standard numbering of Mesomedes' poems, the first two are joined. I think it's quite a beautiful poem.ἄιεδε Μοῦσα μοι φίλη,μολπῆς δ' ἐμῆς κατάρχου,αὒρη δὲ σῶν ἀπ' ἀλσέων,ἐμάς φρένας δονείτω.Καλλιόπεια σοφά,Μουσῶν προκαθαγέτι τερπῶν,καὶ σοφὲ μυστοδότα,Λατοῦς γόνε, Δήλιε Παιάν,εὐμενεῖς πάρεστέ μοι.Sing to me, beloved muse,start up my […]