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Tangents from my reading
25 October 2010
Spiderwoman
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Book VI of the Metamorphoses opens with the story of Arachne . (picture from wikicommons by galak76, used by permission under creative comm...
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24 October 2010
Perseus in the Renaissance
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For those who enjoyed my series of posts on Perseus , H. Niyazi has a recent post on The Three Pipe Problem discussing the portrayal of Per...
16 October 2010
The Lynx and the Magpies
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The next story in the Metamorphoses is that of Lyncus’s treacherous attempt to murder his guest, Triptolemus, for which he was turned into ...
13 October 2010
Arethusa
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The next story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is that of Arethusa , a nymph who was turned into a spring by the goddess Diana to protect her from ...
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05 October 2010
Falco Review
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Lindsey Davis ’s series of mysteries starring Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer in Vespasian’s Rome, has now reached its 20th and prob...
19 September 2010
Welcome
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Welcome to follower Nam Hoai, a Vietnamese architect with two blogs: nhomthangmuoimot , about 19th and 20th century art from different parts...
18 September 2010
The Water Organ
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I’ve been reading Lindsey Davis ’s Falco series, and as the Roman History Reading Group is due to read Last Act in Palmyra in December...
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22 July 2010
Another Welcome
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Welcome to H. Niyazi from Three Pipe Problem , the three pipes being art, history, and mysteries.
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21 July 2010
The Death of Socrates in Art
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In my last post I talked about hemlock , but I’d forgotten that Gary Corby of A Dead Man Fell From the Sky also covered hemlock quite rece...
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18 July 2010
Hemlock
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The episode of House shown the other night was Knight Fall . The patient, Sir William, was a re-enactor who became ill during a mock-media...
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