Grammarians, Whores, Buffoons
Language Log 2015-10-18
Summary:
From an anonymous colleague: I'm currently auditing Jennifer Houseman Wegner's class on Cleopatra. Today, in a Powerpoint lecture on Ptolemy IV, she showed the following quote from Edwyn Bevan's "A History of Egpyt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty": (Metheun, 1927, p.233) "Agathocles and Agathoclea still, as before, ruled the king's [Ptolemy IV] corrupt affections. The palace […]