Re: VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-22 Thread rdyer
I have been busy with other things - I hope the Hellenists and Byzantinists on this list know the excellent Suda On Line project on Stoa: http://www.stoa.org/sol/ I am just finishing a cluster of very time-consuming entries on Tyche and its related verbs in the 1700 years of Greek that the Suda

Re: VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-13 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
At 01:21 PM 5/7/03 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote: Did V really weigh every word and load every word with meaning to the extent that Paschalis supposes? If Suetonius-Donatus is to be believed, Virgil composed the Aeneid at the rate of three lines per day. (That is, if you don't count weekends.) He

VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-07 Thread M W Hughes
I've just been reading (though it was published in 1997) Michael Paschalis 'Virgil's Aeneid: semantic relations and proper names' (though it was published in 1997 (Oxford), Michael Paschalis 'Virgil's Aeneid, semantic relations and proper names' which studies the clues left in V's wording to his