Difficult Translation

by Donald Antenen

While technically excellent, Sarah Ruden’s newest translation is a little too literal. Continue Reading »

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The Consolation of Philology

by Michael C. Legaspi

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared to him in the darkest of times. In the early part of the sixth century, the sun had set on the western Roman Empire. Its greatest intellectual, a highborn official named Boethius—among . . . . Continue Reading »

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