Lex Oppia Debate
August 30, 2023
195 BC. Rome. A motion was brought by the pleb tribunes to repeal the Lex Oppia. The Lex Oppia, brought by Gaius Oppius during the
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August 2023 Reading
August 29, 2023
Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The
Is It Really Impossible to Be a Woman?
August 23, 2023
Well, not literally, of course, since half the world’s population does it every day, but I think America Ferrera’s monologue is really addressing what many
The Male Gaze
August 22, 2023
Ok, so with the release of the Barbie movie, I have been reading from women how the movie speaks to them. One of the terms
A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress – Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
August 15, 2023
The following is my selective retyping of this essay found in the back of the Norton Critical edition of Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is a
Charlotte Bronte Diary Entry- Aug 11
August 11, 2023
At the back of the Jane Eyre edition I’m reading, there is a great entry written by Charlotte Bronte. I’ll just post the pictures since
SPQR Ch 12 – Mary Beard
August 11, 2023
I skipped over chapter 11 since it covered things I don’t really care to post about. 12 Rome Outside Rome Pliny’s province In 109 BC, Pliny
Language Learning
August 11, 2023
It has been over 10 years since the last time I was in Italy, which was 2011. While I have occasionally exercised my Italian in
Jane Eyre- Moor House / Morton
August 10, 2023
Character list The breadshop clerk Hannah- housekeeper at the Rivers’ place. Diana Rivers- St John’s sister, she is handsome and intelligent. She loves to share her knowledge
SPQR Ch 10 – Mary Beard
August 9, 2023
10 Fourteen Emperors What went wrong with Gaius? Tiberius took over seamlessly from Augustus but grew increasingly reclusive over the last decade of his life, spending
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.