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Diversion, shameless plug

Posting will resume soon…I’ve been assisting my wife lately with her website. For anyone with kids check out her site “kids + love + acupuncture: tips from A – Z to keep your kids healthy” and follow her on pinterest. Thanks to the last article I know more about kids’ constipation than I ever wanted […]

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The Shadow by Benito Pérez Galdós

The Shadow Benito Pérez Galdós Translated by Karen O. Austin (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1980) My inadvertent “Galdós in English translation” project continues with his first novel… The Shadow (La sombra) was written by Galdós in 1866 or 1867 but wasn’t published until 1870 in serial form. It was his first novel and, although […]

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Off the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel: The Periplus of Hanno

Codex Heidelbergensis 398 The single surviving manuscript of Hanno’s Periplus Locate din the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg Picture sourceOff the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1936) For the most part the student must lament that ‘the iniquity of oblivion’ has overtaken work of the utmost value, but sometimes a precious […]

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Off the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel: Gaius Iulius Solinus

Off the Beaten Track in the Classics by Carl Kaeppel (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1936) Kaeppel begins his book with an essay on “Gais Iulius Solinus, a Teller of Wonder-Tales”. Solinus’ work, the Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium (Gallery of Wonderful Things), was written somewhere between 230 and 280 A.D. by Kaeppel’s reckoning. Different editions of it […]

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The complicated Mr. Kapuściński

I’ve read a few books by Ryszard Kapuściński and thoroughly enjoyed them. He was a marvelous raconteur. The one book of his I posted about was Travels with Herodotus, a half-memoir and half-reflection on Herodotus’ The Histories. Reading it just after re-reading The Histories was perfect timing, amplifying my pleasure of it. The liberties Kapuściński […]