Memory, Pleasure, and Suffering/Aeneas, Odysseus, and Eumaios It is well known that Aeneas’ speech in Aeneid 1.198-207 draws on a speech of Odysseus in Odyssey 12.208ff. (see, e.g., R.D. Williams ad A.1.198f. Her Continue Reading →
Bad Guests in the Odyssey (Lattimore’s translations again.)When we first come upon the estate of Eumaios in Odyssey 14 and receive a description of his property, it is noted th Continue Reading →
Fairies and Fate In the Ch. 29 vocabulary list in Wheelock, ‘fairy’ is listed as a derivative of Lat. fatum. I hadn’t known this, so I decided to look it up quickly in Continue Reading →
