What a way to start the Spring semester. Classes are cancelled for today and campus is closed. I’m happy to be able to stay at home gazing out the window watching the ice slowly cover the trees. Gives me a change to finish reading Mary Beard’s The Roman Triumph — a book that I highly recommend, not only for the information it provides about this Roman ceremony, but more importantly, for the cautionary tale it tells about the pitfalls of researching topics in ancient history.