In addition to translating all of Book VI, we will read segments of several commentaries from Late Antiquity or the Middle Ages, including those of Servius, Macrobius, Fulgentius, and Silvestris. We will be meeting with EN 281, whose students will be reading the texts in translation. See the complete Spring 2014 syllabus here.
Information on Vergil Week 2014 at CWRU!
The Life of Vergil written by Aelius Donatus. Scroll down to chapter 32 for the account of Vergil reading sections of the Aeneid aloud to Augustus and Octavia, who fainted at the mention of her son, Marcellus, in VI.884.
The decision to use a quotation referring to Nisus and Euryalus in the 9/11 memorial has provoked controversy.
Other Points of Interest
Why (and how) do we read Classical literature today? Theater of War uses Greek drama in discussing PTSD. Here's an NPR story from early in the project.
It turns out that the Mycenaeans barbequed!
A newly excavated (and reburied) temple is the oldest one known in Rome.
Another excavation, this one into a catacomb where victims of the Antonine or another plague may be buried.
For those not familiar with the "Romani eunt domus" scene.