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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

Obituary for Thalia Pandiri

Thalia Pandiri, who taught classics at Smith College for 56 years, died in a fire at her home in Northampton on December 17. She was a former

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

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?

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