Sunday, August 17, 2008

Why maybe I should have studied archaeology too.

The Villa of the Papyri is one of the two most energizing and awesome contemporary projects in the world of classics today. (The second, the Antikythera mechanism, will likely be the subject of a future blog post as well.) Check out this article from The Australian newspaper a couple of weeks ago that explains why I am currently contemplating moving to Italy...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24096948-25132,00.html

Can we say 'Aristotle's second book of the Poetics', anyone??

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