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Tag Archives: Horace

Horatian Easychair.

02-Aug-12

anatomically Something I have never seen before, an easy-chair whose cover is stitched with quotations from Horace’s Ars Poetica.  “There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.”  Unfortunately the shop, in Delhi, New York, where this was seen, was closed.  “It is not enough that poems should be beautiful; […]

Notes on Roman Money.

06-May-10

Pāsighāt The top unit of value in the coinage of the late Republic in Rome was the aureus, which prior to Nero was approximately 1/42 of a pound of gold.  In 2010 dollars, where a pound of gold is worth about $14,000, the aureus takes on a value of approximately $330. The denarius, a silver coin, […]