Classes of Rank in the Late Roman Empire (After J.B. Bury.) The three major categories were as follows (in descending order): illustres: heads of the great central ministries; commanders-in-c Continue Reading →
The Legal Style? D.A. Russell’s An Anthology of Latin Prose includes as its fifth selection a passage from Book 4 of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, in which we Continue Reading →
Defending Vergil It’s difficult to imagine a time when a scholar might feel the need to defend Vergil against the notion that he was derivative, artificial, or less th Continue Reading →
