Is it really so hard to find a thesis advisor? Apparently so. A couple semesters ago, I'd asked around in my department, but no one felt comfortable working with Roman agriculture. Now I have people and contacts lined up on the agricultural/post harvest side of things but I'm worried about finding someone on the Classical end. I spent a good ( Read more... )

It's Thursday January 21. A date that can be summed up in two words...

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Oh dear. Google you've really done it this time. I'm only mildly irritated when you offer to translate my Greek for me and then do it like a person who trying to make sentences out of physics equations. But today, you fail EPICALLY. My LatinReadingSupernaturalLoving!Fangirl self was following a link from someone's lj to check out a site of Latin ( Read more... )

I sit up in bed because my alarm's gone off and I have to get up because I've got my Latin final today, but before I go to the final, there's some important meeting I have to go to. I rush off to some place on campus for the meeting because I'm late, but none of the people there are students, they're all older ladies. Ok. I sit down and do some ( Read more... )

AAGdsj;awot28946 tjhakdlwjshGAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Latin is my undoing! Make it stop! Make it stop! TOO MUCH LIVY!!!! DO NOT WANT!!!!!!

Wow. So I've been reading a bunch of Latin (no surprise given that my final's Tuesday), and I'm starting to realise what an IDIOT Servius Tullius is. Seriously, let's let the two psychos marry each other now that they've killed their respective spouses/siblings! Yeah! Seriously, how hard to you need to be hit with the Clue Hammer of Great Justice ( Read more... )

My Livy's being a real pain to get through. It just goes on and on and on. It's like being lost in a desert. A desert of really dry Latin. With maybe an oasis or two of exciting bits. TOO MUCH LATIN ( Read more... )

Well, the Livy isn't going  to translate itself...
34, 35, 36, 37,38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
Off to find some place where I won't waste my time looking at random things online.

Umm...Book 1 of Livy''s history TOTALLY needs to be a fandom. Seriously. Aside from the very dry passages detailing the building of temples and sewers, Book 1 has got some really great action. Rome gets founded, fratricide happens, the Sabines are stolen, regicide happens, there's some awesome omens, kickass women, and then the fall of the monarchy ( Read more... )