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Papers by Clifford Weber

The Classical World, 2017

Emerita, 2012

As the context of Virg., Aen. VI 565 requires, the ancient interpretation of this line is correct... more As the context of Virg., Aen. VI 565 requires, the ancient interpretation of this line is correct, while the current consensus is mistaken. The Sibyl has never seen Tartarus. Subsequently, when she repeatedly asserts that she has witnessed the punishment of criminals confined in Tartarus, this blatant contradiction imitates the famously contradictory location of Odysseus outside Hades initially but later firmly within it.

Classical Philology, 2016

Vergilius, 2019

Vergilian lines containing the adjective mollis ("soft") exhibit neoteric stylistic mannerisms si... more Vergilian lines containing the adjective mollis ("soft") exhibit neoteric stylistic mannerisms significantly more often than do lines containing its antonym durus ("hard"). Stated otherwise, Vergilian lines in which mollis is found tend themselves to be versus molles ("soft verses"). A similar tendency is not evident in Ovid's Metamorphoses. ., Included in the wide semantic field of the adjective mollis is its figurative application to the kind of verse that is technically refined and devoted to such allegedly trivial themes as luxury, hedonism, aestheticism, effeminacy, and amor above all. 1 As a characterization of such verse, mollis is sometimes contrasted with durus, denoting the opposed qualities of technical insouciance and weighty subjects associated with such elevated genres as epic and tragedy. The opposition between these figurative senses of mollis and durus has been thoroughly discussed by scholars both past and present. 2 Prop. 2.34.41-44 is a typical example. Here, a tragic poet receives the epithet durus, while mollis is applied to the refined verse that he is urged to write: Desine et Aeschyleo componere verba coturno, desine, et ad mollis membra resolve choros. Incipe iam angusto versus includere torno, inque tuos ignis, dure poeta, veni.

Vergilius, 2014

Although a number of questions relating to Aeneid 8.714-28 have received their share of attention... more Although a number of questions relating to Aeneid 8.714-28 have received their share of attention in the literature, 1 a lexical anomaly in 8.721-22 appears to have been overlooked. The text in question is this: dona recognoscit populorum aptatque superbis postibus.

Classical Philology, 1990

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1989

Classical Quarterly, 1996

Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1983

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1987

Studies in Philology, 1999

The Classical Journal, 1998

Classical Philology, 2002

... Yet it remains a remarkably Dionysiac Apollo to whom Aeneas is com-pared in Aeneid 4.143-49.6... more ... Yet it remains a remarkably Dionysiac Apollo to whom Aeneas is com-pared in Aeneid 4.143-49.60 In causing the polar duality of Apollo and Dionysus to coexist in the persona of his hero, Virgil creates a further cor-respondence between Aeneas and the Tyrian queen who is ...

Classical Philology, 1991

Illinois Classical Studies, 1985

Classical Philology, 2008