I do hope new students will post things this semester... It's several weeks in and I see that there's only Dr. M's welcome post.

Well... I've been very busy myself. I was visiting family in Virginia and South Carolina until the day before my birthday and then the day after my birthday I came down with a terrible cold for the rest of the week. I'm only just feeling better from that, which is a very good thing because I start my substitute teacher training on Tuesday (so I will miss seeing the Inauguration live on tv, but I'm recording it on DVR; I really don't want to miss it).

Two things somewhat related to the Classics and Latin:

1. I'm watching Gladiator on HBO at the moment. Thank you, Russell Crowe. ;D


2. My friend Ilana is currently reading a 1918 translation of De Bello Gallico and she's finding it very amusing. She posted about it at her own blog, here, which others might find interesting/amusing as well.

~Rachael

Quo usque, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra?

Dear all,

Here is a message to welcome beginning, intermediate, and advanced Latinists to this electronic notebook. Please share your thoughts on our classes, on Latin in general, or on the Roman world and how it slips into the cracks of each day, unnoticed, and yet so permeating...

My thoughts drift to Cicero---his impossible rise to the consular top, his class neuroses, his self perception, his cutting witty sarcasms, his abandonment by his friends, his death. I hope that people have found some of those things we discussed in class yesterday inspiring, and I am looking forward to more such discussions.

Soon again,

EM.



PS. Google 'Cesare Maccari' if you want to know more about this image...the story behind it is very interesting.