I, the son of Priam, send Ledaea that pure felicity which only if imparted by your giving may be mine. Hanc   tibi   Priamides   mitt...

Near the very beginning of her letter to Aeneas, Dido twice uses a familiar trope, commonly known as zeugma. She will use it more times in ...

Mortal action in the ancient epic world is shrouded in murk. Even chosen sons of goddesses like Aeneas have very little notion of what they...

Wherever Odysseus went, the people he visited believed themselves the very center of the world. But all these lands are on the margins of h...

Motifs associated with Troy lingered in the lore of Europe well into the middle ages.  The meander above might have little to do with He...

A different account by Virgil in his Aeneid (3.163f), has Aeneas in a dream learn from his ancestral Penates that "Dardanus and Fa...

It can be illuminating to see how different Virgil's Dido is from Ovid's heroine. The Carthaginian queen's last speech in Aen...

[A few changes and additions come toward the end of this.] The last time I looked, Perseus's bi-lingual edition of the Heroides was n...

I've come away from our reading of Pindar's Olympian I and Ovid's Heroides I with a stronger and clearer sense of major diffe...