New at LacusCurtius and Livius.Org

[Bill Thayer]

There's only one thing worse than proofreading, and that's indexing. I once indexed a schoolbook on American history; it was in the late 1970s well before the full use of computers, and it was horrible: I've never been able to use an index card since.

Three items today on Tentacle-Baby, curiously related:

• "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned"
  Allen's Star Names: Lyra
  Fidicula from Daremberg & Saglio's Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines (one of the links in that article that I was unable to pop in, by the way, was Letter 148 of Synesius)

The Daremberg & Saglio item is in English (my own translation); otherwise, since the entire Dictionary is online courtesy of the Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, it would be pointless. Not everyone reads French, however; since D&S is far better than Smith's Dictionary, I'll be translating an article from it from time to time. No, I'm not about to sit down and translate all 10 volumes.

The Osiris-Typhon myth was a canvas for all kinds of things in Late Antiquity; among them, the legend of St. George, in the ground-breaking if a bit breathless and, well, French paper by Clermont-Ganneau, Horus et Saint Georges d'après un bas-relief inédit du Louvre.

Finally, unrelated to anything, but brand new online yesterday and a useful text for some: my partner James (who hosts my site one level down from his) is starting to put up Aelian's Varia Historia; which is online, partially, at Augustana — but in Greek. So, the English translation of the Varia Historia by Stanley; index page is just a placeholder, but Books 1-3 are complete, or at least as complete as Stanley published them: 17th century, so bowdlerized in spots.

Bill