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Showing posts with label Virgil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virgil. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 June 2026

The Argonautica: “Dear, dear Medea, why are you in tears?”

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1/ The Argonautica has a clear structure: the first half (Books 1 and 2) is about Jason and the Argonauts’ voyage to Colchis for the golden...
Monday, 25 May 2026

The Rape of Lucrece—I have now read everything in the Shakespearean canon

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1/ Published in 1594 (apparently written during a plague), The Rape of Lucrece was around the same time as Henry VI Part 1 (if we assume, a...
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Sunday, 18 January 2026

Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

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1/ Now this sounds more like Marlowe, though it’s an early play.  There are some interesting phrases: “map of weather-beaten woe”, “drenched...
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Friday, 7 November 2025

The Aeneid: “I sail for Italy not of my own free will”

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  Aeneas Defeating Turnus by Luca Giordano. 1/ At some point in the poem, after a lot of fighting, Aeneas says to the people there:   “What ...
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Monday, 3 November 2025

The Aeneid: “their bows went under like a school of dolphins”

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Nisus and Euryalus by Jean-Baptiste Roman. 1/ As I have heard from other people, the Aeneid has two halves: the first half is modelled afte...
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Wednesday, 29 October 2025

The Aeneid: “She prayed for death/ Being heartsick at the mere sight of heaven”

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  Painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland.  1/ After fleeing Troy, Aeneas and his people wander for some time and stop in Carthage. In Books 2-3...
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Saturday, 25 October 2025

The Aeneid: “Tell me the causes now, O Muse”

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Attributed to Lucca Batoni Pompeo . 1/ One of the surprising things about the Aeneid is how similar, how well it fits in with Homer’s epics...
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