And Speaking of Solidi… …Sarah brings us a link to a pucker-faced Honorius solidus, worth reproducing here: Continue Reading →
Fitzgerald’s "Aeneid" Postscript The Postscript to Fitzgerald’s translation of Vergil’s Aeneid is good. In sections v and vi he puts the war scenes in the context of the Vergil’s time Continue Reading →
No Direction Home I saw one of the best correctives I’ve come across in a while to academic extravagance in mountain-out-of-a-molehill-making (often in evidence in my o Continue Reading →