Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, evidently designed for Humanities 1 and 2, is entitled "The Ancient Epic" and condenses "The Iliad," "The Odyssey," "The Aeneid," and two sections from the Bible...
Professor Spackman's university students may not agree that the Aeneid contains an exciting love affair [TIME, Sept. 13], but I wish to assure him that high-school students (at least the girls) do. Most of them are strong partisans of Dido. It is some comfort to them and restores Aeneas somewhat in their estimation, to run across the lines where he says he did not leave Dido willingly, but because of the orders of the gods...
...they finished at the end of the second year of Latin, most of them usually dropped Latin forever. Miss Geweke's plan: if most schoolkids are only going to take two years of Latin, why not give them "the best Latin"? Why not give them Vergil and his Aeneid...
More Glamor. To many an old-school Latin teacher, the idea was heresy. Vergil, they said, was much too difficult, too full of poet's irregularities. Besides, boys at least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South...
...Virgil: Aeneid...