Psychoanalysis has not been brought to the bear on the study of Roman culture as
thoroughly as it has engaged Hellenic studies, and to date most work has consisted of the …

Compelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary
poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the …

In this paper I read the closing scene of the Aeneid through Aeneas' final speech, asking:
What does it mean for Aeneas to say “Pallas te hoc vulnere, Pallas/immolat” at Aeneid …

This article revisits the anonymous Panegyricus Latinus 12 (9) in praise of Constantine's
victory against Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. Delivered in 313 ce, a year after …

The curious closure of Milton's Paradise Regained has provoked dismissal. Alberto Manguel
recalls in A History of Reading how, as a young bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires, he used to …

The death of Turnus is one of the Aeneid's most controversial and variously interpreted
episodes–anything from the triumphant vindication of Aeneas and the Roman future, to the …

" A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing
part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the …

The article argues that in the second half of the Aeneid Vergil debates different forms of
violence drawing on Greek tragic plays. It maintains that episodes of rage/mania, inspired by …

This thesis provides a comprehensive interpretation of Vergil's' Aeneid'as an expression of
cyclical time. In capturing the historical intensity of the transformative Augustan moment …

In this dissertation, I examine the Neo-Latin supplements to Virgil's Aeneid (1400–1700), in
particular, Pier Candido Decembrio's Liber Decimus-Tertius Eneidos (1419), Maffeo Vegio's …