APROPOS of the interminable BaconShakespeare controversy there may be interest for the curious and combative in the ingenious case made out by Père Jean Hardouin, a seventeenth-century Jesuit scholar, ...
America’s founding generation absorbed Virgil’s Aeneid and the lessons of Rome. This essay series explores Italy’s unique contribution to the rich inheritance of Western civilization, offering a ...
Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...
New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas. By Talya Zax The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by the Trojan refugee ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The sense in which the verb recognoscere is used in Aeneid 8.721 is unparalleled in verse, but extremely common in prose as a technical term ...
Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a clear, vibrant American English, her ...
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