Dover’s Theocritus: a review (reprint: Bolchazy-Carducci) As I make my (not so) triumphant return to the field of Mawr’s I feel myself compelled to do something I ought to have done a long time ago. The good 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 →