Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Soundplay in Aeneid 2.19 This may be a bit of a stretch, but given Vergil’s Alexandrianism I’m going to go with it. In Aeneid 2.19, in the first description of the Trojan Hors Continue Reading →
Engraved Gourds? In his Commentary on Jonah, Jerome refers (4:6) to “gourds of small cups/vessels” on which images of the Apostles are sketched: Et revera in ipsis cuc Continue Reading →
Bedtime Reading According to Plutarch’s Life of Alexander 8, Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (along with his dagger) beneath his pillow. In reading Continue Reading →
