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Imagine a classics course in which the students all rise without prompting to address the class; discuss the course on their own time with their classmates; are seldom if ever [...]

Abstract: Aristophanes reworks the Prometheus of Prometheus Bound and the account of Peisistratos' procession to the Acropolis for his own comic purposes. (1) In the climactic scenes of Aristophanes' Birds, [...]

The poetic contest of Vergil's 'Eclogue 3' between Damoetas and Menalcas ends with two riddles that have been the subject of a lot of study both by Vergil's contemporaries and modern scholars. However, the answer is shown to be Achilles' shield hangs in the Grynean Grove with the story of Ajax linking the two riddles. An ancient scholar, Junius Philargyrium, first answered one riddle with Ajax's shield, not referring to his actual shield but rather to Achilles' shield which Ajax later lost to Odysseus. The hyacinth in the second riddle has often been linked to Ajax's death.