06-01-2007, 10:01 PM
Back to Roman stuff, or at least somewhat more Roman, after that orgy of Plutarch. Actually, as will be seen, I'm cleaning my desk:
- The Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano in Rome: which couldn't be more misleadingly titled; in fact the article is about ancient Roman topography, and the identification of the ancient building out of the débris of which that church was carved. The author doesn't know what it is, but he says none of the common names for it are right, and it wasn't a temple; he believes it to have been part of the enclosure of the Temple of the Penates.
The Birth-Place of Propertius and A review of Urbini's La Patria di Properzio, a pair of related items providing us with an entertaining moral: before you savage somebody, you'd better be right.
Platner's review of Töbelmann's Bogen von Malborghetto: much more polite; a minor piece, but called for by a note in a major article on the Via Flaminia that I'm still working on. The Flaminia is something of a dada of mine, since I've walked a fair amount of it, sort of. Hey, it's both Roman and in Umbria.
Gemini: Allen's Star Names, continued.
AÂ review of Brown's Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians, and Babylonians: that too called by a note elsewhere.