Of Poets and PestsThe story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net worth—for an extravagant funeral. Celebrities swarmed ...

All the best stories are trilogies. The Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t complete until Vergil penned the Aeneid seven hundred years later. It took three books for Frodo to get the ring to Mount Doom.

His research focuses on the works of several Greek and Latin authors, specifically Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Apologia, Petronius’ Satyrica, Fronto’s Correspondence, Hyginus’ Myths, and Vergil’s ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The American Journal of Philology Vol. 12, No. 2, 1891 Servius on the Tropes and Figures of Ver... Servius on the Tropes and Figures of Vergil This is ...