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...Odyssey” with the nagging feeling that something is missing from the story, and the epic is a touchstone for tales of travel and homecoming. As early as the first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid??; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then, faces its own Scylla and Charybdis—on the one hand, the menace of literary forerunners whose adaptations...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Duncan and her five blockmates were accompanied to the Charles by the Canaday C prefects, Jordan D. Scopa ’04 and Kanoe M. Lum ’05. Scopa dubbed the shoebox boat launch “Canaday C-Aeneid??—and like Aeneas these first-years were in search of a favorable new home last night...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers and Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: On Lottery Eve, Rituals Reign | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were less than pure; although he undoubtedly had a sense of the Aeneid??s unsurpassable greatness, the poem also served Augustus on a more practical level by extolling, at least on a superficial level, the greatness of imperial Rome—the Rome that Augustus personified...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life After Death | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

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