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Cincinnatus And The Disbanding Of Washington's Army, Thomas Nelson Winter
Cincinnatus And The Disbanding Of Washington's Army, Thomas Nelson Winter
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Who was Cincinnatus? It bespeaks a great loss of our own traditions that there is a great number of Americans who do not know. Cincinnatus was the favorite model of Roman virtue, frugality, integrity, and above all, of republican citizenship, even for the Romans themselves. He was the farmer who plowed his own land, the man elected consul in 460 B.C., the man called in 458 to the dictaborship - the supreme but temporary military command - to deliver the Roman consular army from the beseiging Aequian forces. Summoned from the plow, he saved the Roman army, defeated the Aequians, …
A New Prescription For A Lens To Homer: Review Of Robert Fitzgerald's Translation Of The Iliad, Thomas Nelson Winter
A New Prescription For A Lens To Homer: Review Of Robert Fitzgerald's Translation Of The Iliad, Thomas Nelson Winter
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
HOMER, The Iliad, translated by ROBERT FITZGERALD, Doubleday.
One of the best things about this version was Fitzgerald’s decision to use the purist transliterations: the effect of this is to invite the reader to read as if he had never read an Iliad before. A single newly thought‐out rendering can nudge the reader into new thinking about Homer, thinking which he otherwise would not have done. The ultimate way to experience Homer will ever remain to become at home in Greek. Then the experience is your own. But for the price of fifteen dollars you can experience Fitzgerald’s experience of …