Tag Archives: A. E. Housman

Happy Birthday, A. E. Housman

Posted on Tuesday: March 26, 2019 by Michael Hendry

In honor of A. E. Housman’s 160th birthday, ending in seven minutes, here is Charles Johnston, in Selected Poems (London, 1985): Footnote to Housman To reach the top flight as a poet you must write an unreadable work, so obscure … Continue reading →

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Bibliographic Byways I: The Cambridge Greek and Latin Book Club

Posted on Monday: July 31, 2017 by Michael Hendry

Among the Persïana on my shelves, one of the least often consulted contained an interesting document when it arrived from an on-line bookseller. The book is . . . well, it will be quicker to provide a picture of the … Continue reading →

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Two Kinds of Textual Conjecture in One: Horace, I. 12.12

Posted on Friday: March 3, 2017 by Michael Hendry

I have just written another textual note (a page and a half – 585 words), this one a really obvious, but apparently original, emendation of one of Horace’s dirtiest poems. Here is the link to the PDF. As always, comments … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day Texts

Posted on Monday: May 29, 2006 by Michael Hendry

(This is a rewrite of a previous Memorial Day post.) 1. Simonides’ epitaph on the 300 Spartans who died at Thermopylae: ὦ ξεῖν᾿, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε     κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων πειθόμενοι νομίμοις. Stranger, tell the Lacedemonians that we lie here, … Continue reading →

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