Monthly Archives: March 2010

Time To Watch Rashomon?

Posted on Tuesday: March 23, 2010 by Michael Hendry

Today is Akira Kurosawa’s 100th birthday. I wonder how many culture bloggers will mention it. No one seems to have noticed Hugo Wolf’s 150th, which was 10 days ago.

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A 2000th Anniversary, And I Almost Missed It

Posted on Saturday: March 20, 2010 by Michael Hendry

Ovid was born on March 20th, 43 B.C., and exiled to Tomis (now Constanza, on the coast of Romania) in A.D. 8. There he wrote five books of Tristia and four of Epistulae ex Ponto, lamenting his fate at great … Continue reading →

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