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The Wrath of Heaven against the Roman State
We’ve now completed the Annals of Tacitus and are poised to finish Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class this week. I’m going to celebrate by reading another Shakespeare play, something particularly ap… more →
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The Wrath of Heaven against the Roman State
wrote 4 days ago: We’ve now completed the Annals of Tacitus and are poised to finish Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Cl … more →
The Wrath of Heaven against the Roman State
wrote 4 days ago: We’ve now completed the Annals of Tacitus and are poised to finish Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Cl … more →
Battle of Mons Graupius Site Found (?)
wrote 6 days ago: From the Herald: A HISTORIAN is claiming to have found the site of one of Scotland’s most sign … more →
Fiddling While Rome Burned?
wrote 1 week ago: Now that we’ve finished Dante’s epic, we can read commentary on it from one of the 20th century’s gr … more →
Fiddling While Rome Burned?
wrote 1 week ago: Now that we’ve finished Dante’s epic, we can read commentary on it from one of the 20th century’s gr … more →
Schokkende slachtpartij
wrote 1 week ago: Symbool voor de Varusveldslag Ze bereikten de plek in het gevaarlijke moeras. Zijn gezicht vertrok b … more →
Endurance and happenstance
wrote 1 week ago: The voice of history, of course, is composite. Many voices; all the voices that have managed to get … more →
Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, et quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro appone
wrote 1 week ago: Cease to inquire about the future and take each day as a gift, says Horace. Each day has its gifts, … more →
colloquia
wrote 1 week ago: The unreliability of the text as a locus of memory must have been a familiar notion to the younger P … more →
“I Smile at Your Childish Thought”
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wrote 1 week ago: Welcome to a very tardy Great Books post. This week we take a break from Epictetus in order to read … more →
“I Smile at Your Childish Thought”
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wrote 1 week ago: Welcome to a very tardy Great Books post. This week we take a break from Epictetus in order to read … more →
Pliny
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Pliny the younger, nephew of the Roman encyclopaedist of the same name, witnessed from a distance th … more →
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws
wrote 2 weeks ago: I saw this meme on Facebook. I saw it around the time the Indian government introduced new laws agai … more →
Terse
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Inspired by AJ Woodman’s introduction to Tacitus. “Dynasties pass,” said Ronald Sy … more →
How Many Psychoanalysts Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?
wrote 3 weeks ago: How many do you think it takes? (Get it?) Here are the readings for the coming week: The Divine Come … more →
How Many Psychoanalysts Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?
wrote 3 weeks ago: How many do you think it takes? (Get it?) Here are the readings for the coming week: The Divine Come … more →
Beginnings
wrote 3 weeks ago: or THE GENTLE ART OF THROWING YOUR PROTAGONIST INTO THE DEEP END, WITH A WEIGHT TIED AROUND HIS ANKL … more →
Tacitus, Annals XII.37
wrote 3 weeks ago: “For if you wish to rule over all, does it then follow that all welcome slavery?” nam si … more →
If the World Stinks, It’s Not God’s Fault
wrote 4 weeks ago: This week we pass 13,000 pages in the Great Books Project. And I don’t care who you are; you have to … more →
