[[This is an electronic version of an article originally published in More modoque: Die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident. Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag (ed. P. Fodor, Gy. Mayer, M. Monostori, K. Szovák, L. Takács) 155–165. Budapest 2013. The original page-numbers of… Read more
[[This essay was originally published in Classical World 104.4 (2011) 483–493.]] [1] ABSTRACT: What if we put to our texts the injunction of the Spanish intellectual Jose Ortega y Gasset—“We must call the classics before a court of shipwrecked men to answer certain peremptory questions… Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 11 and 12, where Aeneas stops to grieve and bury his fallen comrades. The online discussion will be on Tuesday, August 29, at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 11 and 12, where Aeneas stops to grieve and bury his fallen comrades. The online discussion will be on Tuesday, August 29, at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
While thus in distant region moves the war, down to bold Turnus Saturn’s daughter sends celestial Iris. In a sacred vale, the seat of worship at his grandsire’s tomb, Pilumnus, Faunus’ son, the hero mused. And thus the wonder-child of Thaumas called with lips of rose: (Aeneid 9.1–7 translated by Theodore C.Williams) Read more
While thus in distant region moves the war, down to bold Turnus Saturn’s daughter sends celestial Iris. In a sacred vale, the seat of worship at his grandsire’s tomb, Pilumnus, Faunus’ son, the hero mused. And thus the wonder-child of Thaumas called with lips of rose: (Aeneid 9.1–7 translated by Theodore C.Williams) Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 7 and 8, where Aeneas, returning from the underworld, sails for Latium where he is unable to avoid hostilities. The online discussion will be on Tuesday, June 27, at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 7 and 8, where Aeneas, returning from the underworld, sails for Latium where he is unable to avoid hostilities. The online discussion will be on Tuesday, June 27, at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 5 and 6, where Aeneas, driven by duty, continues his journey, when he will discover more about what he needs to do to accomplish his destiny. Read more
This month, we are reading Virgil’s Aeneid Books 5 and 6, where Aeneas, driven by duty, continues his journey, when he will discover more about what he needs to do to accomplish his destiny. Read more
