Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
The Classical Dylan, Again
In "Narrow Way," on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday I could have thrown them all in the seaToday, even one may be too much for me The bolded line...
“Thunder on the Mountain”: An Addendum on “Tombstone”
An allusion to “Tombstone” in “Thunder on the Mountain”?
“Let Me Die, Lest I Die”: Martial in St. Augustine?
On a peculiar phrase in St. Augustine’s Confessions.
Rilke and Kafka in Zoshchenko’s “Apollo and Tamara”
On Mikhail Zoshchenko, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka.
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust”
The afterlife of a phrase about death.
“Love Minus Zero”: An Epigram by Henrik Harder
A new translation of Henrik Harder.
Luther and the Classics: The Case of Psalm 90 (2) (Horace and Cicero)
More on classical references in Luther’s lectures and commentary on Psalm 90.
Luther and the Classics: The Case of Psalm 90 (1)
The first post in what it is hoped will be a series on Luther’s use of the classics in his lectures on Psalm 90.
Catullus in Vergil?: Pallas, Turnus, and the End of the Aeneid
A theory on Catullus and the end of Vergil’s Aeneid.