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Stuff and Stuff
I survived the Greek test today. It was a little rough. I think I didn't do as well on it as on the last one. Had a section about poetic figures/techniques, one of which was clearly a hysteron proteron, (the first example given here is actually the English of what my exam said from Book XII of the Odyssey) but the second example of text had mostly ( Read more... ) -
Farewell, Natasha
Liam Neeson's publicist has confirmed it. Natasha Richardson is dead. The world is a little less bright.
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Latin Scrabble
Is amazing! Of course, I like scrabble to begin with. And, apparently, our Classics Club adviser isn't particularly a scrabble fan. Which means that despite his 20+ years of Latin (compared to my two-ish), he still didn't soundly beat any of us before he left. Maybe it's cheap, but I'll take my confidence boosts where I can get them. The most ( Read more... ) -
In Honor of St. Patrick's Day
I really wanted to share Patrick's Lorica in Latin ... and while several sources say that Patrick wrote it in Gaelic and translated it himself into Latin, neither I nor my minions (aka uber-helpful instructors) have been unsuccessful in tracking it down in Latin.
So, instead, a quiz:
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Author Inspired
So, I've been absent from the blogosphere for a bit. Apologies. I've been trying to be productive as possible and sometimes blogging feels like it's low on the productivity scale. Two weeks until spring break. Which means several tests in the mean time and all the chaos that goes with them.
Today I attended the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale ( Read more... ) -
Words Due to Illness
Same fabulous professor who teaches my Greek class also teaches my mythology class. She's out sick today. I hope she gets well soon. But it's also a bit of a relief to have those two extra hours to work on other stuff.
Like writing just shy of 1000 words on Geohexaes. It was the craziest thing. The day after I start doing scholarly research on the ( Read more... ) -
Updatery of the Classical Sort
Writing: I’ve decided (with the 10% reserve to change my mind) to go ahead and research Neoptolemus even though I’m writing him in a short story. I found five good articles which I’m going to print out today and have requested three more from ILL (Inter Library Loan).
Slightly irritating thing about ILL? I had requested an article for another ( Read more... ) -
Worship and Vocabulary
Lead worship this morning. I only had one line's worth of crash-and-burn (just got totally lost in the presence of God/beauty of the music, then opened my eyes and had no idea where I was when I looked at my sheet of lyrics and chords). Fortunately my guitarist and violinist just kept playing right on without me, so it was not as half as awful as ( Read more... ) -
Scholar vs. Author?
A favorite professor of mine re-opened the topic of directed study/conference-presentable research paper (maybe I mentioned this a while ago). Now (since we're through the halfway point of the semester grumble, grumble, grumble), if I'm still interested, he'd like to be the adviser on a research project and he has an off campus (because there's one ( Read more... )