Aeneid
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The incipit of a somewhat lengthy piece at Michigan Live: Thirteen straight hours of poetry reading might sound like many college students’ worst nightmare. But six Western Michigan University world language students have volunteered for just that, signing on for what is being billed as the university’s first marathon poetry reading this Friday. Latin 5570,…
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Ages ago I can remember several discussions on the Latinteach list that the Aeneid episode of Wishbone was difficult to find … I don’t know if it’s still in that category, but in case it is and/or in case you don’t know the show, here it is in three parts:
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We’ll be generous and ignore the Olympic Games connection in this one, but if you’re looking for something to show the kids when dealing with the funeral games of Anchises, ecce:
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Most football-loving (of the Canadian/American variety) Classicists are probably well aware of the late Joe Paterno’s love of Vergil and the Aeneid. Back when the Penn State scandal broke out, I was monitoring assorted news coverage to see if anyone would be spinning it with a Vergil connection and there were a few. One which…
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Interesting feature from Tunisia Live: Her story ends in suicide, caught up in the flames of a funeral pyre. Scholars of ancient literature know it well, Virgil’s tragic tale of a lustful Queen of Tyre, in the epic poem the Aeneid. But less well-known is the legend, passed down in oral form, of a heroine…
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