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77Morality and Transgression in Spoon River
Imagine this: The son of a drunk and a sexually frustrated nag knocks up the millner’s daughter, then runs off to see the world. He leaves behind the pining schoolmistress who loves him and writes to him of God. Dora, the millner’s...
1 comment65Amateur Aeroponics
Aeroponics is a type of soil-less gardening, similar in theory to hydroponics and aquaponics. In hydroponics, plant roots sit in hardened balls of clay, perilite, or mineral wool, water saturates the roots...
0 comments76Women in the "Illiad" and "Odyssey"
Women play an important, yet often overlooked, role in classical epics. Whether to drive the plot, add dimensions to a male hero's character, or to present a political argument in a rather vague sense, women and gender issues are an influential part...
1 comment81Roman Dining - Roman Orgies?
Roman dining is a broad topic, encasing within itself not only the physical customs of eating but also the ritualized dance of social constructs. Many aspects which are true of private...
0 comments74Classicist Review of "Gladiator"
One might be able to say that those who created “Gladiator” completely disregarded history and facts to create a sensational, bloody, massively inaccurate film about Ancient Rome. This would...
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72Gender Roles in Ancient Rome
This hub explores Roman gender roles only through the Twelve Tables and attempts, very briefly, to examine this in light of further Roman laws. In particular, it looks at the implied rights of women and children and attempts to determine the duties...
10 comments66Falling For Lesbia, When Love goes Wrong
Catullus’ long and consistently unstable relationship with Lesbia is the source for many of his poems. The full cycle of their doomed love plays out for modern readers of Catullus in his remaining texts. By the time Carmen 76 is read, Catullus has...
0 comments71Building a Fire, Analyzing Jack London
In Jack London’s To Build Fire, the main character struggles with nature on account of his removal from it by reason. The man confronts the bitter cold of the near Arctic and is unable to...
1 comment71Catullus, Roman Love Poet
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a 1st century Roman poet. His poems are in Latin and many concern a woman he calls Lesbia. She was apparently a married noblewoman and he her lover, not at all uncommon in those...
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70Latin in Pop Culture
This hub explores the use of the Latin language and Rome’s mythology and anecdotal history in pop culture as a means of increasing interest in the Classics. Some sources are correct in their representation...
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