Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Caesar's caesarean, and other myths

How many myths about the ancient world had you always thought were true?

And how did the C in Caesar become soft, anyway? We should be saying "kaiser." (Via Rogue Classicism.)

2 Comments:

Blogger Judas said...

Myths of the accient world and all they have to say is Jesus was not born on Chritmas day. I'd say that there was a little more to be querstioned than just that. Such as if the jews found him guilty of belsphomy why wasn't he stoned?

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8:49 AM  
Blogger vs-f said...

When I studied Latin--at a convent school in the 1950s--we did pronounce Caesar with a K sound. And in first declension, we pronounced terrae as "tear eye"

4:14 PM  

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