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Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Elision in Aeneid 1.520

While Aeneas hides in a cloud, an embassy comes from other Trojan ships that, it turns out, hadn’t been lost after all. Their entry to the temple of J

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Eric in Language, Literature | October 29, 2012 | 111 Words

In memoriam: Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun has died. Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian and administrator whose sheer breadth of scholarship — culminating in a sur

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Eric in Uncategorized | October 26, 2012 | 125 Words

Verbal Artistry in Vergil: Allusion in Aeneid 1.498-504

As Dido enters the temple of Juno in Aeneid 1 she is likened in a simile to Diana (Artemis): Qualis in Eurotae ripis aut per iuga Cynthi exercet Diana

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Eric in Language, Literature | October 18, 2012 | 297 Words

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