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Tag: Aeneas

  • Latin tutoring: Practice literary and context questions for Aeneid VI

    I’ve been captivated once again by the wonderful style and substance of Vergil’s Aeneid. But this year I’ve been particularly nerding out because my three Year 12 Latin tutoring students are all studying book VI, the journey to the Underworld, which was the book I studied when I was in Year 12.

  • Ovid’s mini-Aeneid: a hidden gem

    A man great in war, second to none in piety, Aeneas, oppressed by the hatred of hostile Juno, Seeking Italy, went astray on Sicilian waves… – Ovid, Decastich arguments of the Aeneid, I.1-3 It’s not every day that we stumble across a beautiful, hidden gem like this work. In my head I call it the…