When in Rome Constance Bodurow, an urban designer/planner, compares civic life in Rome and Detroit, which has its own Campus Martius (and, of course, one should no Continue Reading →
Of Farming and Classics I started reading this book 6 weeks or so ago, but haven’t picked it up for a few weeks. The review is by Edith Hall. A teaser:Most classical scholars Continue Reading →
Symbolic Restitution I was intrigued by the following passage in Walter Burkert’s Greek Religion:The finds from the Neolithic town of Çatal Hüyük now make it almost imo Continue Reading →