"Herculaneum Uncovered"

Be sure to check out "Herculaneum Uncovered" on PBS's Secrets of the Dead. You can watch it this Tuesday night or online here.

Baucis and Philemon's "Epulae"

Students in Latin III honors were treated to a "feast" (Lat. epulae) today, corresponding with the meal that Baucis and Philemon prepare for the gods Jupiter and Mercury in Ovid's Metamorphoses VIII: 664-678.

Epulae (Feast):
bicolor sincerae baca Minervae (two-colored olive of pure Minerva)
corna autumnalia (wild autumn cherries)
intiba (endive)
lactis massa coacti (lump of cheese)
nux (nuts)
mixta est rugosis carica palmis (figs mixed with wrinkled dates)
pruna (plums)
redolentia mala (fragrant apples)
candidus favus (shining honeycomb)