Look what just arrived via First Class Mail for me! My dearest friend Parisa (of PftP fame) sent this to me along with a note: It suddenly struck me that you should haave this instead of me - being the true SF Historian in our family!


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In light of the recent 'geese vs. US Airways' incident, I thought it might be nice to reflect on a time when geese and men (at least Romans) were all on the same side...


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But, seriously folks, I'm having a really hard time trying to care about the Sub Protogeometric Pendant Semi-Circle Skyphos.


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Hasn't been one for a while, eh?  Well, what can I say... I've been busy.  This won't be much of a story either, I'm afraid, but... over winter break I'll try to recount some of the more exciting ones.

No this is actually about today's lecture in my Roman Culture class.  You see, my professor, Dr. Anderson (aka Dr. Rock Star for reason known only to ( Read more... )

Okay, I really do have another Roman moment up my sleeve... but not today.  I thought that since I never talk about the Greeks (who I'm also studying this semester, but since I don't really like that class at all, I tend to ignore,) I'd give you this little snippet of both.

Technically this is for my Roman history class... the life of Cato the Elder ( Read more... )

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Apparently, Catullus the Late Republic Roman poet didn't take too kindly to criticism.  Here is poem #16 in Latin:

pedicabo ego uos et irrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
qui me ex uersiculis meis putastis,
quod sunt molliculi, parem pudicum.
nam castum esse decet pium poetam
ipsum, uersiculos nihil necesse est;
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pays off sometimes.  Well, thanks to my pal Robbie for letting me practice some creative writing journalism over the summer, I managed to get a pretty decent grade on my first paper of the semester.  It was primarily creative while still tying in some aspects of what we learned in our first week of Archaeology... namely that assumptions are made - ( Read more... )

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One thing that the Romans seem to be known for is their corruption and debauchery.  Well, did you know that they were actually incredibly religious?  These people were hard-core about keeping each religious ritual and it had to be done perfectly.  If any part of it was done wrong, it had to be done over... from the start.  The gods were nothing to ( Read more... )