A ramble on Latin scholarship I’ve been away from this world for awhile. The opportunity presented itself to move 2,800 miles away, and despite a good job teaching Latin in a good
Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Soundplay in Aeneid 2.19 This may be a bit of a stretch, but given Vergil’s Alexandrianism I’m going to go with it. In Aeneid 2.19, in the first description of the Trojan Hors Continue Reading →
Engraved Gourds? In his Commentary on Jonah, Jerome refers (4:6) to “gourds of small cups/vessels” on which images of the Apostles are sketched: Et revera in ipsis cuc Continue Reading →