Revisiting Anne Carson’s Antigonick
I first read Antigonick shortly after it was published seven [...]
ignore all that astrology: Horace and Ovid
"Elegy" is a loaded word in classical poetry; Ovid’s poem [...]
Ovid’s Heroides
One of the least remarked and most remarkable qualities of [...]
Down and Dirty: Translations of Catullus
Once upon a time in a state far, far away—Indiana—a [...]
Through the Ivory Gate
Seamus Heaney introduced his translation of Beowulf with these words: [...]
Getting Horace Across
When curmudgeons want to argue the intractability of poetry to [...]
Martial Music
Ezra Pound wrote epigrams. William Carlos Williams wrote epigrams. e. [...]
Livy Alive
I wasn’t quite bored. I had just completed a fourth-year [...]
The Glory that was Greece, the Grandeur that was Rome
“The Antients may be considered as a rich Common, where [...]
Apuleius Translated
I’ve been looking at asses. More specifically, I have been [...]