I’m a huge fan of the botanical gardens. There’s an impressive collection of bonsai trees there.

These are the moments that define a dog’s inner greatness.

and principles inspired Cassius, Trebonius, and Brutus among others. There are implications here for the entire collection of Epistulae ad Familiares, for which Tiro is the most likely editor. They aren’t fully developed, but at least we get a closing portrait of Cicero as ideal republican leader.

who assassinated Caesar. Though Cicero’s letters and speeches generally show more ambivalence and uncertainty, this specific set of letters, arranged in the order in which the vulgate sets them, presents Cicero as “the missing link” among the conspirators, as the senior statesman whose example

when they chose Dolabella as Tullia’s third husband. This main point is well argued and with the right level of conviction, given the state of the evidence. I recommend!

I’m finally getting back to Treggiari’s book about the women of Cicero’s family: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

If you like pistachios, get a large bag of them from Aegina. Something about the sun, soil and roasting technique makes them the best pistachios I’ve ever encountered. Somehow lemons figure into the preparation?

The implications for humanism more generally, while left subtextual, hold out the possibility (now largely forgotten among scholars) of really getting to know another author, of understanding who they are. Maybe Eden wouldn’t go that far, but her reading invites us to consider the possibility.

Eddie Glaude now joining him in conversation, and highlighting how DuBois’s “Dark Waters” shows us a space of historical contingency in an unexpected glance.

…make every effort to see it. The cinematography was so thoughtfully integrated with the story and the characters’ experience. I’d say more, but words fail me. m.imdb.com/title/tt3014...