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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

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Eric in Language, Literature | March 19, 2013 | 150 Words

Bedtime Reading

According to Plutarch’s Life of Alexander 8, Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (along with his dagger) beneath his pillow. In reading

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Eric in History, Literature | February 14, 2013 | 87 Words

Caesar in Vergil and Servius

Servius identifies the “Julius Caesar” named in Aeneid 1.286-8 as the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar rather than as Augustus (a debate still ongoing at

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Eric in Language, Literature | February 14, 2013 | 122 Words

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