Housman’s letters again

Another review of Archie Burnett’s edition of Housman’s letters has appeared, this time by Paul Johnson in the Literary Review. Johnson is wrong when

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West on Passages of Disputed Authenticity

In M.L. West’s commentary on the Theogony, he remarks in his introduction to the Typhoeus passage (820-80) that it is ‘one of the sections of the Theo

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The dangers of the interweb

I know you really can’t reduce everything to the worst if its kind, but I found this on a site purporting to help teachers and students:Virgil’s epi

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