How We Roll in Aeneid 1 (Updated) Some brief notes on a pattern in Aeneid 1.1-50: In 1.9, Vergil instructs the Muse to call to his mind the causes for which Aeneas had to undergo/roll Continue Reading →
Servius on pietas Servius, in his note on Aeneid 1.10, has a very straightforward, no-frills, useful definition of what it means for Aeneas to be insignem pietate: quia Continue Reading →
Huns in Claudian, Germans in Caesar Late in Book 1 of In Rufinum, Claudian describes the Huns: Est genus extremos* Scythiae vergentis in ortus trans gelidum Tanain, quo non famosius ullu Continue Reading →
