Entries from September 2006

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Andragoras' fatal dream (Martial 6.53)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/Martial6.53.mp3] Lotus nobiscum est, hilaris cenauit, et idem inuentus mane est mortuus Andragoras. Tam subitae mortis causam, Faustine, requiris? in somnis medicum uiderat Hermocraten. Subscribe with iTunes

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

A Dilemma: Parenting

Sociology: Study examines gender roles of children with gay parents Judith Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz argue that children with lesbian and gay parents are more likely to depart from traditional gender roles.   Children born to and raised by homosexuals tend to play, dress and behave differently than children reared in heterosexual households, a […]

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Marius enters Rome (87 BC) (Lucan 2.99-114)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/Lucan2.99114.mp3] quis fuit ille dies, Marius quo moenia uictor corripuit, quantoque gradu mors saeua cucurrit! nobilitas cum plebe perit, lateque uagatus ensis, et a nullo reuocatum pectore ferrum. stat cruor in templis multaque rubentia caede lubrica saxa madent. nulli sua profuit aetas: non senis extremum piguit uergentibus annis praecepisse diem, nec primo in limine uitae […]

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Quintia and Lesbia (Catullus 86)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/Catullus86.mp3] QVINTIA formosa est multis. mihi candida, longa, recta est: haec ego sic singula confiteor. totum illud formosa nego: nam nulla uenustas, nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis. Lesbia formosa est, quae cum pulcerrima tota est, tum omnibus una omnis surripuit Veneres. Subscribe with iTunes