Here are some of the interesting things we’ve found this week!
Salon has put up an excerpt of David Konstan’s book Beauty: The Fortunes of an ancient Greek idea. Great if you’re teaching a unit on art!
Greg Guderian at the New Jersey Latin Inscriptions Project provides a handout on Latin phrases commonly found on American gravestones as well as a handout from a 2014 presentation he did called Saxa Loquantur, which includes examples from all over the United States. Make sure to check out the website generally for lots of great info on Latin inscriptions in America.
Caesar made his famous crossing of the Rubicon on Jan 10, and so in honor of that event here are two links: the first, a short discussion of a speech made by Jeff Daniels (playing the classically educated and Bowdoin professor turned general Joshua Chamberlain) in the film Gods and Generals just before the Battle of Fredericksburg; the second, a blog post musing about all the little things that go into making a particular event momentous and historic. Happy reading!