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blogographos is a public blog to which anyone interested in Greek and Roman antiquity may post. This means interested laymen as well as professional classicists and students. This blog is not intended as a challenge to the resources for classicists currently available--chief among them the Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group, hosted at the University of Kentucky, and David Meadows's rogueclassicism--but rather as a complement.
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Sep 27, 2005
I*L*I*A*D
Here's a snippet from Alan Alda's new autobiography, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed:
"Bill Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy, was studious, translating ancient Greek during his breaks. For one scene, he had to spend a long time at the bottom of a car in which about twelve nurses were piled on top of him. When he finally crawled out, someone asked him if he was all right, having spent two hours under all those women. 'Yes, fine,' he said. 'Fortunately, I had my copy of the Iliad with me."
Sep 11, 2005 Buy a Friend a Book Week: Starting October 1st. CONTEST and Site Update
The second Buy a Friend a Book Week is nearly upon us! The festivities begin again on October 1st. For those of you not in the know, there are four Buy a Friend a Book Weeks per year, in the first weeks of January, April, July, and October. Participants are urged to buy a book for a friend for no good reason--or at least for no reason other than that it's BAFAB Week. Good books, good karma!
I've updated the BAFAB site (www.buyafriendabook.com) for October. It now features book recommendations from October's guest reviewer, author Gayle Brandeis, as well as from myself. Also, there is a new BAFAB contest open to bloggers: blog about BAFAB and you could win a bunch of free books (including a signed copy of my Trying Neaira).
Please do visit and see what BAFAB is all about. And if you like the idea, spread the word! You could get some free books yourself, all for the price of a blog post.
