Kevin's Classics

Excuses Neglect: 1. to give little attention or respect to | 2. to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness Origin and etymology of neglect: Latin neglectus , past participle of neglegere, neclegere , from nec- not (akin to ne- not) + legere" to gather Neglegere (other variations negligere, neclegere ): 1. not trouble one's self about | 2. to disregard, dispise| I think you get the gist of what I am trying to say with all these definitions (English from Merriam-Webster dictionary, Latin from Lewis & Short). To put it in words, I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time now. Finally, I managed to write these words down on paper (uh, on the server; the rest of this post contains "writing" for "typing words into MS Word"). Acceptance is the first step to recovery, right? Nevertheless, I am still not off the hook and I should explain why I disappeared after the very beginning of this blog

Hello everybody ( you who dared to come to this blog), If you found this blog somehow by googling, then I applause you for finding it in the first place and for wanting to read a blog about classics by a student. Perhaps you're the unfortunate person who discovered me by searching for "mosquito killer" with the hope that you could find a way to get rid of them? In that case, I have to apologize beforehand because this string is just a random tag I put in.  (Not to say that I am not a phenomenal bug smasher since I have already splashed two gnats, only the third one is still lurking in my room). But let's get to the point, shall we? I am a classics student named Kevin van der Hoek and I have recently attained my bachelor's degree in Greek and Latin language and culture. Hereafter, I am going to carry on with the research Master's in Literary Studies. As you might guess from my name, I am not from the UK or the USA, but from the Netherlands. This has all to ...