Odds & Ends
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Talking to Virgil
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Call Number: Baker-Berry DG213 .W57 1992The title essay in this volume is about the fascinating W.F. Jackson Knight, translator of the Penguin Classics' Aeneid. We learn that Virgil himself spoke to Jackson Knight via a South African medium, helping him to translate difficult passages.
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F.R.D. Goodyear - "On Reading the Unreadable" (1966)"One recent fragment consisted not of a line, not of a word, but of a letter, the identity of which remains highly doubtful. It was edited thus: ...]ε[... Since the publication of this fragment was very recent, we still await the first attempts at emendation and commentary."
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Perpetua's Journey
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Publication Date: 2017"Perpetua's Journey is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that examines issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world through the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua." -
Q. Horati Flacci Carminum librum quintum : a Rudyardo Kipling et Carolo Graves, anglice redditum et variorum notis adornatum ad fidem codicum mss.Rudyard Kipling's and others' diligent efforts brought the fifth of Horace's Odes into the light.
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Fascist Latin Texts"Fascist Latin Texts makes available Latin texts on subjects relating to Fascism and written under Mussolini's regime (1922-1943). It includes works of both prose and poetry, such as textbooks for school children, eulogies of Mussolini and his regime, epic poems on Italy’s colonial wars, or translations of some of Mussolini’s speeches."