Interpreting the Aeneid in terms of symbols is nowadays a fashionable and respectable
procedure. It can also be highly dangerous, as some of its practitioners frankly admit. For …

There have been several discussions of this line and James Tatum has rightly shown that
this allusion should be connected with the cutting of Dido's lock by Iris in Aeneid 4.3 But …

3Ed. Fraenkel," Some Aspects of the Structure of Aeneid VII," JRS 35 (1945) 1 ff. 40One
purpose was to appeal to local pride and patriotism of the audience, and to echo Iliad 2.484 …

Of this story of the wanderings of Aeneas from Troy to his promised land, so far as the
miraculous elements are concerned, Livy was frankly sceptical; to it Ovid was indifferent …

I'm staring at the sun not the only one happy to go blind'en years ago, in a stimulating article,
Charles Murgia reconsidered, among other issues, the notorious problem of Aen. 4.435-36 …

34 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW revised draft of his commentary was completed just a few
days before his death in October 1974, and the work has been seen through the press by his …

Just as when disorder arises among the people of a great city and the common mob runs
riot, wild passion finds weapons for men's hands and torches and rocks start flying; at such a …

That the episode of Dido (one might say the whole unit books 1—4 of the Aeneid) is worked
out very much in the spirit of Greek tragedy was remarked by Henry Nettleship ninety-nine …

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY settlement of sea-weary Trojans in the western
Mediterranean, and asks Aeneas to overcome two critical losses-of part of his fleet by fire …