In memoriam: Jacques Barzun Jacques Barzun has died. Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian and administrator whose sheer breadth of scholarship — culminating in a sur Continue Reading →
Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Allusion in Aeneid 1.498-504 As Dido enters the temple of Juno in Aeneid 1 she is likened in a simile to Diana (Artemis): Qualis in Eurotae ripis aut per iuga Cynthi exercet Diana Continue Reading →
Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Sense and Word-Choice in Aeneid 1.483-7 As Aeneas inspects the pictures in Juno’s temple, he sees Hector dragged three times around the walls of Troy by Achilles: Ter circum Iliacos raptaver Continue Reading →
