Antigone Journal
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'Evans was shown a burnt clay slip... presenting some incised linear signs which seemed to belong to an advanced system of writing.” This was the first Linear B tablet known to modern investigators. And here's how its mysterious code was finally cracked: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…
A column found in Turkey in 1883 was sawn off as a flowerpot stand for a railroader's wife. Although some of its inscription was lost, the column can still sing its beautiful Greek poetry to us. An amazing tale of ancient music surviving against the odds!
antigonejournal.com/2021/12/song-o…
There's no dictionary of Ancient Greek that can give you a complete insight into what a word means: limitations of scope, scale and translation mean it can only offer approximations. Today, Harry Tanner, recently of Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway, reveals how to go deeper: antigonejournal.com/2024/04/unders…
Antigone Journal This banger (Winnie Ille Pu) got me started in grade school.
My dad was an expert at 'leaving books around', & this was the hook.
Then his Loeb version of Commentarii de Bello Gallico finished the job.
IV years of Latin (Grades VII-X)
Thanks Mr. Kizner (Z’’L)
'Numerous Latin speakers left boasts about how good their Greek composition skills were, though it is hard to know how many grains of salt we should apply to such assertions. Greek speakers learning Latin seem usually to have had more modest ambitions.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/07/learni…
A column found in Turkey in 1883 was sawn off as a flowerpot stand for a railroader's wife. Although some of its inscription was lost, the column can still sing its beautiful Greek poetry to us. An amazing tale of ancient music surviving against the odds!
antigonejournal.com/2021/12/song-o…
Antigone Journal Presumably the Hull copy was acquired under Philip Larkin's regime; a pleasing piece of literary proximity
'Although no one accorded tattoos higher social status than the Thracians, they were also viewed positively in other ancient cultures outside of Greece and Rome. For instance, religious use of tattoos was common in various Eastern Mediterranean societies.'
antigonejournal.com/2023/03/stigma…
'Numerous Latin speakers left boasts about how good their Greek composition skills were, though it is hard to know how many grains of salt we should apply to such assertions. Greek speakers learning Latin seem usually to have had more modest ambitions.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/07/learni…
'We all know that silence is golden. The problem is that, as Palladas was well aware, we have far too little of it. 'Words, words, words,' as Hamlet says to Polonius; that's what we have. They're mostly meaningless gestures into the void.' A Greek epigram
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/pallad…
'Although no one accorded tattoos higher social status than the Thracians, they were also viewed positively in other ancient cultures outside of Greece and Rome. For instance, religious use of tattoos was common in various Eastern Mediterranean societies.'
antigonejournal.com/2023/03/stigma…
'We all know that silence is golden. The problem is that, as Palladas was well aware, we have far too little of it. 'Words, words, words,' as Hamlet says to Polonius; that's what we have. They're mostly meaningless gestures into the void.' A Greek epigram
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/pallad…
'Ingenious Italian artisans devised a three-dimensional and yet still portable souvenir for visitors: cork architectural models of ruins. These proved highly desirable not only to the wealthier tourist and collector but also to the professional architect.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/02/cork-m…