The Epic Successors of Virgil ‘This is a short book on some very long poems written in the first 130 years of the Roman empire: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Statius Continue Reading →
Michael Choniates, a reader of Nicander Michael Choniates was Metropolitan of Athens in the early 13th century, a learned man who loved the ancient world and wrote with sadness about the bar Continue Reading →
Naked Philosophers I just came across the following in a section of Prudentius’ Hamartigenia in which he is expounding on the wickedness of fallen man. I’m fairly certai Continue Reading →
