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Bernardino Stefonio Flavia Tragoedia, Salvador Bartera
Bernardino Stefonio Flavia Tragoedia, Salvador Bartera
Classics Publications and Other Works
In the year 1600, during the celebrations for the Jubilee of Pope Clement VIII, Bernardino Stefonio staged a grandiose play at the Roman Jesuit College, where he was professor of rhetoric. The Flavia, a tragedy centered around the gens Flavia, specifically the principate of Domitian’s last, most tyrannical years, comprises five acts of Latin poetry in the style of Seneca, whose plays Thyestes and Medea provide the main models. Stefonio’s learning, however, embraces the entire Latin canon, with a special predilection for the poets Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan, but also classical prose and Christian authors.
Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi
Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi
Classics Faculty Publication Series
Readers who encounter the Aeneid today often face an abridgement meant to fit the demands of a college literature survey: Troy, anderings, Dido, the Underworld-the exotic Odyssean Aeneid of the first six books. The poem's second half, if read at all, might offer only scenes from book 8 (etiology and shield), Nisus and Euryalus from book 9, sometimes Camilla in book 11, Turnus's death at the end of the poem. But since the first cut in such selections usually includes most of the warfare, Vergil's subtlety (and difficulty) can be misunderstood, especially if the poem's close is to be considered. …
Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi
Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi
Randall Colaizzi
Readers who encounter the Aeneid today often face an abridgement meant to fit the demands of a college literature survey: Troy, anderings, Dido, the Underworld-the exotic Odyssean Aeneid of the first six books. The poem's second half, if read at all, might offer only scenes from book 8 (etiology and shield), Nisus and Euryalus from book 9, sometimes Camilla in book 11, Turnus's death at the end of the poem. But since the first cut in such selections usually includes most of the warfare, Vergil's subtlety (and difficulty) can be misunderstood, especially if the poem's close is to be considered. …