Wilamowitz-Moellendorff/Homer’s Iliad BMCR has a new review of a book that looks very interesting, which is centered around ‘the publication of a nearly word for word transcript of Wilamow Continue Reading →
An Ancient Way of ‘Giving One’s Two Cents’? We’re all familiar with the idea of a person’s ‘two cents’. Someone pontificates on a given topic, and rounds it off with something like, ‘W Continue Reading →
Vergil the Same, despite the Praises or Rebukes of Critics So says Macrobius’ Symmachus:haec est quidem, Euangele, Maronis gloria ut nullius laudibus crescat, nullius vituperatione minuatur… .Saturnalia 1.24 Continue Reading →