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Depictions of the column of Justinian in manuscripts of the Notitia Dignitatum
While reading Twitter I happened to see this item:… ”Constantinopla Nova Roma” – Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain -(15th. c. Manuscript) What struck me at once was the prominent view of the column of...
View ArticleThe Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 3)
Continuing…. Part of the fun in this is trying to recognise the familiar biblical characters behind their unfamiliar Arabic names! 5. When Yārid felt near death, he called to him his son Akhnūkh, and...
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Now the flood… 7. The corruption was now great upon the earth, for the sons of Shīt had intermingled with the sons of Cain, the accursed, performing sins and every sort of immorality and giving...
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I’m busy still with translating Eutychius. We’re nearly at the end of the raw translation work. Once that is done, then I need to go through the material, add a minimum number of footnotes, assemble...
View ArticleA fuller extract from Gregory of Nyssa on the evils of slavery
A few years ago I found online an extract from Gregory of Nyssa against slavery which I wrote about here. Today I came across the full text of the translation, and the passage is rather longer than I...
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Terrence B. McMullen: a name on a fly-leaf comes alive
I’m still purging books. This afternoon I shredded two modern paperback translations of Juvenal and turned them into PDFs. Both were new, and both are disposable. But I’ve been caught out slightly....
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An ancient life of Juvenal
Little is known about the satirist Juvenal, other than what can be gleaned from his works. There are ancient scholia, but these are plainly the product of Late Antiquity. Reading the old 1913 Loeb...
View ArticleThe Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 5)
Continuing with Eutychius’ rewrite of Genesis and the Cave of Treasures. 9. When they went out [from the ark] they built a city and called it Thamanīn (29), from their number, which means “We are...
View ArticleA couple of thoughts on translations of Juvenal
A kind correspondent sent me the introduction to the 2004 new Loeb edition of Juvenal. I warmed to the translator (Susanna Braund) on the first page of the preface: My aim in translating the Satires...
View ArticleThe Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 6)
Continuing… 13. At that time people spoke only one language and one dialect. Some say that they spoke Syriac, others instead that they spoke Hebrew, and others that they spoke Greek. For me the latter...
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