Archives for August 2007
I’m trying to ignore politics and scandals, (like the latest with Larry Craig). So, am I the last to find out about his Super Tuber recipe?
But I just couldn’t resist this pictorial.
Now, if we could make one of those out of squirrel, we’d really have something, … a Squirper Tuber, perhaps.
Update: Tap Three Times.
This is an outstanding episode. The back and forth between Phalinus and Clearchus is quite amusing. Also, I was able to read it fairly easily. My progress with Greek is very uneven; that is, I am clearly progressing, but some passages are more difficult than others, I continually have to look up words that […]
Panel Will Urge Broad Overhaul of Iraqi Police - New York Times
An independent commission established by Congress to assess Iraq’s security forces will recommend remaking the 26,000-member national police force to purge it of corrupt officers and Shiite militants suspected of complicity in sectarian killings, administration and military officials said Thursday.
The commission, headed by […]
Here’s an idea for a movie script, based on Xenophon’s Anabasis.
The setting is in the near future, when “Persia” has taken over Iraq and Turkey. I suppose following some ignominious American exit from the area, but that would merely be background. The set-up is a “Persian Empire,” in roughly its historical, 5th Century B.C. extent, […]
The Nice Deb cooking show « The Hostages
You gotta see this.
h/t: Innocent Bystanders
Now aware that Cyrus is dead, the Greeks are in a tough spot.
While they (the Greek messengers to Ariaeus) went away, Clearchus stayed (behind). And the army was procuring food in what way it was able, slaughtering the oxen and asses from the pack animals; and going a short distance from their lines to […]
Each book of the Anabasis includes a short summary of what preceded it. The division into books came long after Xenophon wrote the Anabasis, and these summaries are certainly not Xenophon’s words.
How the Greeks were recruited by Cyrus to march against his brother Artaxerxes, what happened on the way up, how the battle occurred, […]
Tonight Glenn Reynolds and Mona Charen are engaging in some annoying revisionism:
This morning on C-SPAN 2, I heard a nice young historian spout the conventional wisdom about President Bush and the Iraq War. This particular interpretation is now totally uncontroversial – but it is false. Elizabeth Borgwardt of Washington University told an audience that George […]
I’ve been looking at this for a couple weeks:
And will be getting back to regular life and Xenophon’s Anabasis soon.
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We’ll be up at Saranac Lake for the next two weeks.
The first week, we’ll be camping on an island, and the second week we’ll be in our usual unit, so I’ll probably do some blogging, more likely in the second week.
Cheers,
The armies continued to grapple with each other, if Xenophon is to be believed, the Persians quite ran away when merely threatened by the Greeks.
While they were deliberating this, the King set up against the Greek battle line, re-orienting his army to the same formation as it had in fighting the first encounter. … […]
This story isn’t making big headlines, but yesterday, the fourth aide to al-Sistani was killed in Najaf. A peaceful, (and at least so far) the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, Sistani is exactly the kind of participant needed in any kind of multi-sectarian Iraqi political consensus. And now, someone, (it’s not clear who), is […]
The Exciting World of South Korean Protests
For a country of about 50 million people, there are a lot of protests in South Korea. With a national average of 11,000 public protests a year, the average South Korean riot policeman is mobilized to contain 85 demonstrations a year.
They are all here.
A pretty good blog too, […]
The Battle of Cunaxa, between Artaxerxes’ Persian forces and the Greek forces of (the just killed) Cyrus, continued after Cyrus’s death.
The movement of the forces is quite impossible to describe without diagrams, but three general points might help understand the action: The Persian forces of the Great King outnumbered the Greeks and thus their […]
This finishes Chapter 9, the panegyric of Cyrus.
These last few sentences were quite readable, and Chapter 10 (which picks up again the main narrative of the 10,000 Greeks) seems, so far, to be similarly comprehensible.
Whenever he would travel, many people would come to watch, and he would summon his friends for a conference, manifesting their […]
