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Learning to Savor Every Word
Coming from a school where English and Chinese were the only options for a second language, the word “Latin” was nothing more than a foreign
Why Did Vergil Write the Aeneid?
Why did Virgil write the Aeneid? Why did he want it destroyed at his death? What do scholars have to say about this? Was it
Aeneas and AI
A friend gave me an article from the Wall Street Journal about a computer program, Aeneas, which is being used to figure out damaged inscriptions
Lycophron: A Mythological Puzzle for December 17
This will be the last “mythological puzzle” that we’ll do in this series of blog posts. Next year, I’ll be offering some thoughts about how
On My Love of the Classics
Classics: the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature and the languages they were originally written in, or more broadly, the study of the Ancient
Catullus the Bookkeeper?
Is the list of numbers of kisses in poems 5 and 7 simply a trope, or do they tell us about Catullus’ family and upbringing? Is there magic or just an accountant’s keeping track of things?