Ovid and Housman

My Latin IV students are reading Ovid in translation, and this week we’re covering book 5, which is essentially a pastiche of the major genres of epic

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An unnecessary emendation? (Aeneid I. 343)

One of the principles that drove Housman’s approach to textual criticism was encapsulated in a quotation he had picked up from Moritz Haupt: “The prim

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Plotting Ancient Sites pt. 2

Patrick Callahan of Fordham offers an impressive map showing the origins of the Argonauts (and he has taken it a step further with color-coding): View

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