‘Silver Age’ Again Chris comments in the post below:If I recall, some “silver age” authors actually first designated Cicero, Vergil, and company as authors of the “Golde Continue Reading →
‘Silver Age’ Literature I was intrigued by a footnote in Stephen Hinds’ Allusion and Intertext regarding the post-antique designation of early imperial literature as ‘silver’ Continue Reading →
Memory, Pleasure, and Suffering/Aeneas, Odysseus, and Eumaios It is well known that Aeneas’ speech in Aeneid 1.198-207 draws on a speech of Odysseus in Odyssey 12.208ff. (see, e.g., R.D. Williams ad A.1.198f. Her Continue Reading →
