This year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (3
May 2001), C. E. Murgia (Univ. of California, Berkeley) gave what I thought
was a very persuasive talk on the date of Servius. No doubt this material
will appear in print at some point, but as it has a direct bearing on
While getting up a lecture on Shakespeare's _Antony and Cleopatra_ a month
or so ago, I happened to notice that there are several references to a duel
between Antony and Octavian. The duel never comes off, of course, but
according to Plutarch (Shakespeare's primary source for the play), Mark
I've always loved the closing lines of the Aeneid, simply because it DOES
seem to reflect the Augustan triumph. Remember the prominence that Augustus
has on the shield of aeneas (the twin rays of light coming from his temples
(I think- going from memory). I don't think it is too much to suggest
