Fitzgerald’s "Aeneid" Postscript The Postscript to Fitzgerald’s translation of Vergil’s Aeneid is good. In sections v and vi he puts the war scenes in the context of the Vergil’s time Continue Reading →
No Direction Home I saw one of the best correctives I’ve come across in a while to academic extravagance in mountain-out-of-a-molehill-making (often in evidence in my o Continue Reading →
M-W’s Word of the Day for All Y’all Late Antique and Numismatic Types solidus SAH-luh-dus noun 1 : an ancient Roman gold coin introduced by Constantine and used to the fall of the Byzantine Empire *2 : a mark / used ty Continue Reading →
