THE fascination of Latin poetry is to many inexplicable. Its detects as literature have been often pointed out. It has been pronounced an exotic from first to last; its forms, subjects, and much of ...

Latin is certainly not a dead language on the University of Arizona campus, as students of all skill levels are invited to join the new Composing Latin Poetry club. According to Sarah McCallum, an ...

ROMAN poetry begins in 514 (about 240 B. C.) with Livius Andronicus, who translated the Odyssey into Saturnian verse, — a work about which we know nothing that is interesting except that Horace ...

Here’s the answer to a hypothetical “Jeopardy” query: “Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?” And now, the question: “Which modern Latin American poets could an average U.S. reader likely name without using ...

Ovid, poet of love: Many anonymous works written after his death came to be ascribed to him, “whether or not their authors were trying to imitate his style or not,” according to Ralph ...

Prof. Emeritus W. Ralph Johnson, a distinctive critic of Latin poetry and the renowned University of Chicago author of multiple books on Latin and comparative literature, passed away on April 13. He ...

This book is subtitled “If You Can’t Read Latin Yet”, but is also of great interest to people like me – presumably the vast majority of those who ever studied the subject – who can’t read Latin any ...

Taking as a starting point Housman's note on Man. 4.780 (Cyrenes lacrimis radicis Scorpios acris), the article analyses a stylistic device of Latin poetry, namely the repetition (consonance) of final ...

(Left to right) Marta López Luaces, Lizabel Mónica, Azahara Palomeque, and Mercedes Roffé read their poetry at the Kelly Writers House event. Credit: Maria Murad Kelly Writers House hosted its ...

Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus’ poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern ...