On the Sublime (In Two Odes of Horace)

In the opening poems of Books 1 and 3 of Horace’s Odes, we find a use of the adjective sublimis near the end. The two usages highlight two different t

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Vengeance in Horace Odes 1.2

Words related to the verb ulciscor (pf. ppl. ultus) appear three times in Odes 1.2, the poem in which Horace makes the interesting transition, during

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Housman’s humanity

I first encountered the story that Eric lately referred to in Gilbert Highet’s The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literatu

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