May 2012
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Music from the Iliad →
from inlustre monumentum est: No, I don’t mean music that’s in the Iliad, I mean music that’s generated from the text of the Iliad. Henry Francis Lynam writes to the Digital Classicist mailing list: Hi folks, As the long days of summer approach, I thought a bit of musical entertainment might be in order. I’ve mapped the accents in the Iliad to a 12-note scale to produce some digital...
May 22nd
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On Vestals and ox-carts →
from inlustre monumentum est: I read yesterday a review by Mary Beard of a number of interesting publications in the Times Literary Supplement, some of these may have bearing on elements of my thesis so I will have to have a look at them. That’s not what this post is about, however. The works are O’Sullivan Walking in Roman Culture, Laurence and Newsome, eds, Rome, Ostia, Pompeii and Kaster, The...
May 11th
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