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Research paper thumbnail of Catullan Intertextuality

Cambridge Companion to Catullus, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Bob Dylan and the Art of the Citharode

The Lives of Latin Texts, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of ARTICLES "And I Crossed the Rubicon": Another Classical Dylan

Dylan Review, 2020

Continuing and updating the observations in the author's book Why Dylan Matters (2017), this arti... more Continuing and updating the observations in the author's book Why Dylan Matters (2017), this article explores Bob Dylan's engagement with the classical world of the ancient Greeks and Romans in the songs of Rough and Rowdy Ways. Both in the songs which imply such engagement ("Mother of Muses," "Crossing the Rubicon") and elsewhere on the album, classical antiquity remains a rich resource for the intertextuality of the songwriter. The Homeric poems, and Virgil's Aeneid, are part of the fabric on which he weaves his own epic stories, which continue the process, begun on "Love and Theft", weaving into the album the story of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination, and the civil wars that followed his death on the Ides of March 44 BCE.

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas, Beyond Generations

Retrospectrum Bob Dylan, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid by David Quint (review

American Journal of Philology, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas on Dylan, More Blood More Tracks

Research paper thumbnail of With Seamus Heaney in Elysium: A New Translation of Aeneid 6

Research paper thumbnail of Thoughts on the Virgilian hexameter

Research paper thumbnail of Melodious Tears

Research paper thumbnail of Callimachus Back in Rome

Research paper thumbnail of Memories of the Fall: Prometheus at Epidauros in the summer of 1974

Research paper thumbnail of Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages

Virgil and the Augustan Reception, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review:Relire Menandre Eric Handley, Andre Hurst

Classical Philology, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Aeneas in Baghdad

Research paper thumbnail of My Back Pages

Research paper thumbnail of The Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan

Research paper thumbnail of Epigram and Propertian Elegy’s Epigram Riffs: Radical Poet/Radical Critics

Research paper thumbnail of Grist to the Mill: The Literary Uses of the Quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5

Research paper thumbnail of “My brother got killed in the war”

Research paper thumbnail of David Roy Shackleton Bailey

or 'Shackleton', and later 'Shack', as he was known to friends, was a prodigious scholar, a tower... more or 'Shackleton', and later 'Shack', as he was known to friends, was a prodigious scholar, a towering figure in textual criticism and the editing and translating of Latin literature, and a brilliant student of Roman Republican history, prosopography and society. To say that his chief contribution was in the editing and emending of a whole range of Latin texts only begins to describe the enduring importance of his work, which amounts to some fifty volumes and more than 200 articles and reviews. Along with A. E. Housman, Shackleton Bailey is recognised as one of the twentieth century's great scholars of Latin textual criticism, expertise in which comes only through a deep immersion in the literary, historical and social traditions in which the Latin language evolved. His combination of daunting intelligence, precise learning, brilliant wit, and broad cultural sensibility are unlikely to be seen again. His own prose style, whether in translations of Cicero, justifying an emendation, or just in correspondence is a delight to read, and frequently quotable. These are the qualities that tied him to Housman, and the two of them back to Richard Bentley, holders all three of the power of textual divinatio, as it has been called, the power to successfully emend or explain texts which in the course of their transmission have become corrupted or opaque.

Research paper thumbnail of Catullan Intertextuality

Cambridge Companion to Catullus, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Bob Dylan and the Art of the Citharode

The Lives of Latin Texts, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of ARTICLES "And I Crossed the Rubicon": Another Classical Dylan

Dylan Review, 2020

Continuing and updating the observations in the author's book Why Dylan Matters (2017), this arti... more Continuing and updating the observations in the author's book Why Dylan Matters (2017), this article explores Bob Dylan's engagement with the classical world of the ancient Greeks and Romans in the songs of Rough and Rowdy Ways. Both in the songs which imply such engagement ("Mother of Muses," "Crossing the Rubicon") and elsewhere on the album, classical antiquity remains a rich resource for the intertextuality of the songwriter. The Homeric poems, and Virgil's Aeneid, are part of the fabric on which he weaves his own epic stories, which continue the process, begun on "Love and Theft", weaving into the album the story of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination, and the civil wars that followed his death on the Ides of March 44 BCE.

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas, Beyond Generations

Retrospectrum Bob Dylan, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid by David Quint (review

American Journal of Philology, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas on Dylan, More Blood More Tracks

Research paper thumbnail of With Seamus Heaney in Elysium: A New Translation of Aeneid 6

Research paper thumbnail of Thoughts on the Virgilian hexameter

Research paper thumbnail of Melodious Tears

Research paper thumbnail of Callimachus Back in Rome

Research paper thumbnail of Memories of the Fall: Prometheus at Epidauros in the summer of 1974

Research paper thumbnail of Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages

Virgil and the Augustan Reception, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review:Relire Menandre Eric Handley, Andre Hurst

Classical Philology, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Aeneas in Baghdad

Research paper thumbnail of My Back Pages

Research paper thumbnail of The Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan

Research paper thumbnail of Epigram and Propertian Elegy’s Epigram Riffs: Radical Poet/Radical Critics

Research paper thumbnail of Grist to the Mill: The Literary Uses of the Quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5

Research paper thumbnail of “My brother got killed in the war”

Research paper thumbnail of David Roy Shackleton Bailey

or 'Shackleton', and later 'Shack', as he was known to friends, was a prodigious scholar, a tower... more or 'Shackleton', and later 'Shack', as he was known to friends, was a prodigious scholar, a towering figure in textual criticism and the editing and translating of Latin literature, and a brilliant student of Roman Republican history, prosopography and society. To say that his chief contribution was in the editing and emending of a whole range of Latin texts only begins to describe the enduring importance of his work, which amounts to some fifty volumes and more than 200 articles and reviews. Along with A. E. Housman, Shackleton Bailey is recognised as one of the twentieth century's great scholars of Latin textual criticism, expertise in which comes only through a deep immersion in the literary, historical and social traditions in which the Latin language evolved. His combination of daunting intelligence, precise learning, brilliant wit, and broad cultural sensibility are unlikely to be seen again. His own prose style, whether in translations of Cicero, justifying an emendation, or just in correspondence is a delight to read, and frequently quotable. These are the qualities that tied him to Housman, and the two of them back to Richard Bentley, holders all three of the power of textual divinatio, as it has been called, the power to successfully emend or explain texts which in the course of their transmission have become corrupted or opaque.

Research paper thumbnail of With Seamus Heaney in Elysium: A New Translation of Aeneid 6

Research paper thumbnail of A. Barchiesi, Homeric effects in Vergil’s narrative

Research paper thumbnail of A. Cucchiarelli and A. Traina (ed., comm.; trans.). Publio Virgilio Marone. Le Bucoliche

Research paper thumbnail of L. Morgan, Musa Pedestris: Metre and meaning in Roman Verse

Research paper thumbnail of P. Fedeli and I. Ciccarelli, Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina Liber IV

Research paper thumbnail of A. S. Hollis, Fragments of Roman Poetry, c. 60 BC–AD 20

Research paper thumbnail of S. J. Heyworth, Cynthia

Research paper thumbnail of L. Cadili, (ed.) In Georgica Commentarii (Prooemium / Liber I I– 42), vol. II fasc. 1

Research paper thumbnail of David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia A. Johnston, and Marilyn B. Skinner (eds.), Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Research paper thumbnail of M. Gale, Virgil on the Nature of the Universe

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 128.103.149.52 on Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:51:13 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE CLASSICAL REVIEW THE CLASSICAL REVIEW

Research paper thumbnail of Beat Näf ed., with collaboration by Tim Kammisch, Antike und Altertumswissenschaft in der Zeit von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus

Research paper thumbnail of R. Cramer, Vergils Weltsicht. Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica

Research paper thumbnail of S. Spence (ed.), Poets and Critics Read Virgil

Research paper thumbnail of G. B. Conte, Latin Literature. A History

Research paper thumbnail of C. Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England

Research paper thumbnail of N. Horsfall, Virgilio: l’ epopea in alambicco

Research paper thumbnail of E. Handley and A. Hurst, edd. Relire Ménandre

Research paper thumbnail of S. J. Harrison, Vergil, Aeneid 10

Research paper thumbnail of S. Hinds, The Metamorphosis of Persephone

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 128.103.149.52 on Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:51:30 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions BOOK REVIEWS 77

Research paper thumbnail of P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.