nox ruit et fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis
Vergil, Aeneid 8.369
On the darkest day of the year, in the middle of rural America, it’s black outside. Not even grayscale. Just black, invisible floor to invisible ceiling. In the city, streetlamps and headlights preserve at least outlines. When was the last time late-night diners couldn’t see Broadway’s sidewalks? When did they last step cautiously, nervous they might trip over black trash bags set out on white concrete?
Last year, I published an essay on John Comenius and the first children’s picture book at the Public Domain Review, and I’m happy to report that it is now available in print!
You can order your copy of the collection here, with a discount and guaranteed Christmas delivery if you order by November 18. Scope it out.
The Public Domain Review is a non-profit publication that aims to “promote and celebrate the public domain in all its abundance and variety, and help our readers explore its rich terrain – like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance to an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond”—you can read more about their work at their own site. It’s a great publication with an honorable mission. If you like what you see, consider making a donation!
As I near the end of my graduate education, I’ve put together a list of resources that have been helpful over the last several years. I’ve included some websites for searching Latin and Greek corpora (not just Perseus!), some good Unicode fonts that can render Greek well, a tool for running OCR on scans of Latin texts, and a dictionary of modern English terms translated into Latin.
If you have another resource in mind that belongs on this list, please e-mail me!