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Folks, Hope you are doing well – look forward to our calls next week. I had a chance to visit the offices of “ThinkGeek” last week. They are a very cool retailer selling all kinds of geek-focused products. Check them out at: http://www.thinkgeek.com They… Continue reading →

Reading group colleagues, I have several questions for you to ponder and respond back to. The New York Times “Week in Review” had an interesting article by David Kirkpatrick yesterday, Sunday August 26, 2007, in which Kirkpatrick briefly explored … Continue reading →

Folks, Pat Wictor, Shawn Budde and I went to the Athens-Sparta exhibt at the Onassis Cultural Center in NY, yesterday, Friday, February 16. We were all amazed by the quality of this small exhibit – there were a number of items that have either nev… Continue reading →

Folks, Bruce Upbin, senior editor at Forbes and longtime member of our reading group, just wrote and published an article on Bob Strassler – our favorite classicist and editor of one of the best editions of any of the classics I’ve ever seen. Bob … Continue reading →

Folks, In prepration for our upcoming in-person meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I have been designing a tour that takes us through the ancient near east and greek galleries. This tour is a “literary tour” that uses Homer, Herodotus and … Continue reading →

Folks, As I announced last week on our call, Robert Strassler, editor of The Landmark Thucydides, is coming down from Boston to spend the afternoon and evening with us at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in August. If you have not RSVP’d for our fir… Continue reading →

Discover Magazine recently published an article, “Vox Populi”, which details a 150 year old project in Germany to catalog Roman graffiti. More than 180,000 of these inscriptions are now cataloged in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a mammoth sc… Continue reading →