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Monday: September 21, 2009Hume on the Roman PoetsOvid and Lucretius are almost as licentious in their style as Lord Rochester, though the former were fine gentlemen and delicate writers, and the latter, from the corruptions of that court in which he lived, seems to have thrown off all regard to shame and decency. Juvenal inculcates modesty with great zeal; but sets a very bad example of it, if we consider the impudence of his expressions. (David Hume, “Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences”) Monday: January 16, 2006Is This A First?From my referral logs I find that a university professor in the Midwest has assigned my Juvenal e-texts as the primary text in 4th-year Latin class. I’m flattered. The only other required text is Peter Green’s Penguin translation. Only 14 hits so far, so it must be a rather small class, but that’s not unexpected when undergraduates are reading so difficult an author as Juvenal. Monday: December 19, 2005PictolancheIn checking my blog statistics yesterday, I found that I had gotten well over 100 hits from a link in The Scotsman last Monday. The author complains that the newspaper’s porn filters think that my Latin text of Juvenal’s 10th Satire counts as “nudity”. The article goes on to quote some mildly titillating classical bits available on the web that were not caught by the inept filter. I still don’t understand why a newspaper’s editorial offices would need such a filter at all. Surely the inhabitants are all adults? |
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