SPQR Blues Chapter 4 part V

[spqrblues]

I never did learn drapery.



A survey of beds in Pompeii and Herculaneum, excluding what are obviously children's cots, shows that Roman beds tended to be very narrow, even though married couples were expcted to spend the night together—for propriety's sake. I suppose one could push two beds together, but I prefer to think that Romans liked to spoon.

About the count: I never posted #3000, so I was able to roll it back by one today.

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Comments

Re: Exclamation points!

[mealesbia.livejournal.com]

At least you have a good reason!
I have completely abandoned the classics simply because I am in college now, and need to find a major which can lead...anywhere. (This is the same reason women's studies is out, alas).

(Also I'm not really sure if anything can be better than spending a whole year reading the Aeneid with my best friend.)

But SPQR Blues is an easy way for me to feel like I'm keeping in touch-- like I walk past Classics on my way to class, and we exchange pleasant small talk with a touch of nostalgia, and I can continue on my way without feeling like a bad friend.
Or maybe it's more like being Facebook friends with Classics. I watch them obsessively over the internet, and spend a lot of time thinking about Classics' personal life and drama, but never really do anything with them outside the internet.
It's a lot like being Facebook friends with Classics.
But I promise, if I had the "Top Friends" Facebook application, thanks to SPQRB, Classics would be #1!

Re: Exclamation points!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Well... hm... careers... ::chin scratching commences:: Should you decide you want a career as an editor of any literary stripe, I highly recommend Classics as a major. Although, with your background, you probably already understand the structure and use of language in general pretty darned well. Of course you could always take a course on the side every now and then, right? Greek as a treat. A little Beowulf tossed in as well, maybe? Or, you could just keep reading the comic. That works for me :)

The course I took that combined women's studies and Classics should have been my favourite, but the professors were a little deranged. It led me to all sorts of nifty extracurricular reading, though.

One of my friends struggled through the Aeneid with me in class in high school, but I don't think she enjoyed it much. My main way of getting friends interested in Latin was to tell them elaborate stories about ancient Rome and use Latin in roleplaying game puzzles. They put up with my obsessions for some reason. Maybe they were waiting for me to get to the part of the story with all the wild Roman orgies XD