-- Book review: The Isle of Stone  by Nicholas Nicastro --

©2005 Signet.

Review: Ω Ω Ω Ω ω (4.5 out of 5 on the oh! mega! scale)

The Isle of Stone by Nicholas Nicastro is undeservingly overlooked by booklovers keen on the Ancient World. Nicastro’s talent for naturalistic, accurate description of the legendary past almost rivals that of the famed ( Read more... )

27 may 2008

Elaborated and translated 28 Jan 2009

-- Book review: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Band of Thebes by G.A.  Hauser --

©2005 Publish America.

Review: Ω Ω Ωω (3.5 out of 5 on the oh! mega! scale)

As he felt Meleagros’ heart beating under his head, he tried not to imagine anything happening to his lover, nor to the rest of his men. Somehow they would pull through the ( Read more... )

This blog was concieved as a storage place for translated fiction. However I have more Classics-related stuff to share with my few readers and I thought I might as well post the movie and book reviews which I have done for my Uni's newsletter, as well as some 'article' type of thing ( Read more... )

I know this is crap because I applied Russian rules of poetry-writing to English, which has others.

The Pass

The earth took blood and wine in
The sacrifice still smoulders
The mountains are silent
Protecting their shoulder

The pass that seems so narrow
In both ways leads to Hades'
As heavens scarred with arrows
Weep for the tearless ladies.

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Title: Ashes
Author: Fatalit
Fandom: Alexander (The Persian Boy)
Pairing: Alexander/Bagoas, Alexander/Hephaistion
Rating: PG
Feedback: always welcome
Archieve: please ask
Original story in Russian : www.erotopolis.ca/fics/Fatalit/Fatalit_Pepel.html
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters; only history has a claim on them. The story is told from the point ( Read more... )

I got to watch the Atonement with Kira Knightley and whoever there is, the Oscar nominee movie.
OMFZ!!! I lost track of what was happening as soon as I saw Dunkirk. And the hospital later, with the Sister giving shit to the Chagre Nurses, and with the only French-speaking patient in the ward...  My mind switched to TC just like that, just like it ( Read more... )

Oh wow, I haven't posted anything here for a long while. Too busy with school, too used to the Russian @diary system.
Anyways, since this blog is more TC-oriented than my Russian blog, there we go.... Great thanks to my dear friend July822 for the link.
The art is by Steve Walker, whose gallery you really should visit:  Read more... )

I'm planning to devote some of the journal space to solving problems with translating The Charioteer. It's gonna be a long process so please don't ask me how much I still have to do. All of it. A year may not be enough.
Please help me if you can.

The first questions:

1. Which EDITION should I choose to translate? The 53 edition is the original, ( Read more... )

Drawing Fates
by  ( Read more... )