If you had learned in true classical style, you would have studied dead nudes as well.
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For example, Giorgio Vasari’s fresco adorning the interior of the Duomo in Florence (assuming you’re really into the S&M scene).
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“penipodes?”
oh, Beav, you don’t disappoint!
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Oh my that’s - um - quite a - thing.
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With great power comes zero responsibility.
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There’s a reason the other two Abrahamic monotheistic religions don’t allow ‘graven images’ of God, etc. I mean, the Catholic/Christian churches are supposed to be following the same commandments, but somehow they’ve got lots of images of the Holy Family, and only start to get testy when there’s male nudity involved.
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It’s not nearly as common to see testes in female nudity.
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I won’t post on topic. I’m so saddened by this kind of news I don’t even know where to start.
So here is some digresasion…
Not pedant, simply correct.
Honestly, though, as a native Italian speaker and a person who got top grades in Latin for the whole 8 years it used to be studied, I find the affectation of trying (usually with scarce success) to use the correct declination quite pointless and generally avoid it when speaking/writing English.
English grammar has sensibly allowed since long time to form plurals of foreign words in its native way.
So penises are all right, no need to contort one’s brain to find the right declension (often not helpful, due to exceptions).
Some attempts are particularly strident, like viri or worse (if possible) virii for a name that has no plural in Latin (“singulare tantum”, which itself becomes “singularia tantum” when plural).
At least Italian has (though often overlooked, and somewhat relaxed lately*) a clear rule there: words taken from other languages should not be modified for plural.
So, “un croissant” and “tanti croissant”. Easy peasy.
* I mean, Italians and rules…
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I can see why, when confronted with David’s comparatively enormous hog, that a Florida conservative would be “very upset”, and demand that monument to excess genitals be struck from the public view
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Schools, and teachers, have a responsibility to their students. They do not have a responsibility to their students’ parents - particularly not to the fringe beliefs of a bizarro subset of parents.
Admins often forget this - I’ve had the (G-rated) work of queer students taken down by admins who insisted that they were of course not homophobic at all and were all about supporting inclusion, but who “didn’t want to get calls from parents.” Shame this principal actually seemed to recognize he didn’t owe fealty to these shitstains, and lost his job.
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“ David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral”
Anti-Catholic bigots.
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The chair of the board seems a little on the defensive side.
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The chair of the board sounds like he wants to be in The Onion.
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Ugh.
On top of all the usual mindless fanaticism and fascism, there’s this glaring nugget of willful stupidity:
Mere imagery of the naked human form is not inherently “pornographic.”
Last time I checked, porn involved actually showing or convincingly mimicking sexual activity.
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So much this.
When kid no. 1 was a baby, we brought him to church. We figured if he got hungry my wife could breast-feed him sitting comfortably in the pew. I had my line prepared if anyone grumbled, but I didn’t need to use it. It was a cool church. But if there had been objections: “Excuse me; we’re in church. This is no place to criticize God’s work.”
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I tend to think of a classical education as being the mode in the 17th, 18th century, where you study the Greeks and Romans, and Western civilization is central. A tutor or teacher is the expert, and that teacher drives the curriculum. You’re describing something where it seems the parents drive the curriculum. How does your classical education differ from the classical education as I think of it?
What kind of question is that, Dan? I don’t know how they taught in the 17th, 18th century, and neither do you. You live in New York?
This is anti-intellectualism in a nutshell.
Also:
We don’t use pronouns
Must be hard to speak that way!
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I’m glad you read the article. I was going to post “It seems highly ironic that a school with Classical in its name fired someone for teaching the classics”.
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