Wednesday
Hellenistic figure of a mime
Louvre (from Rostovtzeff, SEHHW)
Seminar (1)
Of John the Baptist: ‘he was as clean as a baby.’
‘Stupidity is also a blemish.’
Rapid, fluid interchange: ‘ ‘No, not boring…’ ‘You have too good manners to say that.’ ‘Or indeed to feel it, in such a case as this.’ ’
The questioner’s voice wobbles across the scope of the query, his voice at a falsetto pitch of ignorance: ‘Then are these ritual baths for the, uh, incidental impurities that, uh, just come up?’
‘ ‘So they believed the temple would be rebuilt, then?’ ‘And how…’ ’