Tag Archives: Meter

Bacchylidean Meter

Posted on Monday: October 14, 2019 by Michael Hendry

Since I’m at the Pindar in Sicily conference right now, I thought I ought to upload my one published paper on Greek lyric, “The Meter of Bacchylides 2 and 6”, published in what was (I think) the very last issue … Continue reading →

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A Metrical Joke in ‘Theognis’?

Posted on Sunday: September 24, 2017 by Michael Hendry

Back to finishing up some long-unfinished papers in my files, I’ve just uploaded a page on two passages of the Theognidea (PDF here).

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Latin Syllabification and Accentuation

Posted on Thursday: June 19, 2014 by Michael Hendry

As part of my larger project (QLTP), one of the things I’ve been working on in the last few months is software to divide a Latin word into syllables, determine which ones are short, which long by nature, and which … Continue reading →

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Ludus Elegiacus

Posted on Sunday: October 30, 2005 by Michael Hendry

In 1937, a Latin teacher named L. E. Eyres published his “Ludus Elegiacus” in Greece & Rome (pages 56-57 and 155). It is a set of twenty-five epigrams in elegiac couplets, the first five of four lines each, the rest … Continue reading →

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Meter handouts

Posted on Wednesday: February 23, 2005 by Michael Hendry

I promised these to a reader. They are handouts I’ve used in various Latin classes to introduce second-year students to meter, beginning with Ovid and Martial, and continuing with Horace. I kept them down to two pages each, so they … Continue reading →

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