06-30-2007, 01:43 PM
This weekend's installments: Bill put online a little piece on the radius (which is the Latin word for the wand used by professors), plus the next part of Ammianus, Book 22: Julian assumes power, without murdering very many people, but driving eunuchs and hangers-on out of the palace. He drops his pretence of Christianity, and returns to the pagan gods; he consults a lot of oracles. He winters at Antioch and deals with local politics there. A long digression on the lands fronting on the Black Sea, and another on Egypt.
On my website, Book 3 of Herodian's History of the Roman Empire. It deals with the reign of Septimius Severus: his wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus, his Parthian campaign and his expedition to Britain.
On a related note, Ptolemy's Almagest, arguably the most influential work from Antiquity after the Bible, the Digests, and Aristotle's Organon, is now online here.
On my website, Book 3 of Herodian's History of the Roman Empire. It deals with the reign of Septimius Severus: his wars against Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus, his Parthian campaign and his expedition to Britain.
On a related note, Ptolemy's Almagest, arguably the most influential work from Antiquity after the Bible, the Digests, and Aristotle's Organon, is now online here.
