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 Continue Reading →
Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae… Color me excited. I just leard that the topic of our special seminar with Michael Putnam next Saturday (part of the annual Michels lecture events) is Continue Reading →
Translation: theory and practice Maximus Planudes, the great Byzantine scholar of the Palaeologan renaissance, composed a Greek translation of the Distichs of Cato (Catonis Disticha), Continue Reading →
