Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Elision in Aeneid 1.520 While Aeneas hides in a cloud, an embassy comes from other Trojan ships that, it turns out, hadn’t been lost after all. Their entry to the temple of J 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 →
