Catullus 16, Money for Nothing, and the value of art
June 28, 2015
By Helen Lovatt. My son is discovering the music of the past via Spotify. Last week he said: ‘Let’s listen to the one with “chips for free”. I really like that one.’ After some discussion and quotation of lines (‘We gotta move these refrigerators’) it became apparent that he meant Money for Nothing by Dire …
Digital Loebs
June 25, 2015
Introducing a new digital resource which will be very useful to all our students. Reposted from the Library Matters blog: Viuamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum seueriorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. (The Poems of Gaius …
Comics about Sparta
June 9, 2015
Lynn Fotheringham talks about how she got interested in Sparta’s depiction in comics – the subject of an event at Lakeside Museum this Saturday. One Tuesday evening in spring 1998, a friend of mine showed up at the pub with the first issue of a comic telling the story of Thermopylae. If it had been in …
Rome’s Invisible City
June 4, 2015
4.5 million people tuned into BBC1 on June 1 for ‘Rome’s Invisible City’, a documentary presented by Alexander Armstrong and featuring Mark Bradley explaining the finer points of strigils and hot walnuts. Here Dr Bradley describes his experience of being involved with the programme. It was 6 a.m. on a warm September morning when Alexander …
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