Monday, 17 January 2011
EURIPIDES: EXTRACT FROM "ALCESTIS"
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Introduction. Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.) was the last of the three great Fifth Century B.C. Athenian tragedians. "Alcestis",...
NUNC EST BIBENDUM
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"Nunc est bibendum", of which "Now it is time to drink" is but one of the many possible translations, is one of the mos...
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Friday, 7 January 2011
THE PATRICIANS OF ANCIENT ROME
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In republican Rome, the 'patricians' were an aristocratic caste who were, according to the Augustan Age historian Livy, the descend...
Saturday, 1 January 2011
CAESAR: "DE BELLO GALLICO": BOOK I
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Introduction. Readers are referred to the fairly lengthy introduction to the Fifth Book of this work which Sabidius published on his blog...
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