Long Livius Lane
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Titus Livius: Livy, the Roman historian → this begins a circular list of seven scholars representing the Seven Liberal Arts of medieval scholarship, the Trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy), which the children are studying
- Down Livy Lane: Joyce's First-Draft version
- along Livius Lane
- Long Lane: a street in the Liberties area of Dublin → Liberal Arts
- Liffey Street: a street in the centre of Dublin
- Love Lane: a street in Dublin off Lower Mount Street
Commentary
- Louis O. Mink, A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer, p. 90: "Conflating representatives of the arts and sciences with Dublin, 260.09-13 suggests a tour which circles N and W from O'Connell St, and back again along the Liffey"
