Tag Archives: Vergil

Amusing Comment in AP Vergil

Posted on Tuesday: March 21, 2006 by Michael Hendry

In the funeral games in Aeneid V, which we read in English — none of it is in the AP selections — all five of the participants in the foot-race are given prizes (340-61). Vergilians will recall that Euryalus, Helymus, … Continue reading →

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Supreme Erudition

Posted on Wednesday: March 1, 2006 by Michael Hendry

Terry Teachout quotes some words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., on his 90th birthday: And so I end with a line from a Latin poet who uttered the message more than fifteen hundred years ago: “Death plucks my ear and … Continue reading →

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Pedantic Leg Footnote

Posted on Sunday: November 20, 2005 by Michael Hendry

If I’m not mistaken, the “gloriously accoutred warrior”* Chloreus who inadvertently lures Camilla to her death in Book XI is the first character in the Aeneid who is wearing any pants: of his many colorful garments, the last mentioned is … Continue reading →

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This Day In History Hagiography

Posted on Saturday: October 15, 2005 by Michael Hendry

Today is not only the 2,074th birthday of Publius Vergilius Maro and the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, it is also the feast of Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky (1831-1906), Episcopalian bishop of Shanghai, a dedicated missionary who translated the … Continue reading →

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