New Translation of the Aeneid

A new translation of Virgil's Aeneid by Robert Fagles (who has also translated the Iliad and the Odyssey) has come out recently. Here are a couple of interesting reviews from the Sydney Morning Herald and Time magazine, which starts: "At school, I loathed Latin, in general, but I detested Virgil in particular..."

Target #2

For those of you with nothing to do in your holidays, here's another target puzzle:

This Target: 6 words, good; 12 words, very good; 18 words, excellent

Solving the Target Puzzles

See how many Latin words of two letters or more you can make from the letters shown in the above grid.

In making a word, each letter must be used once only.

Each word must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the list.

You may include words of any case, number, tense, mood, voice or person, but only one form of each word.

Holiday Reading

It’s been a long time between posts as I’ve been away camping. Here’s what I’ve been reading on my holidays:

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention from Fire to Freud, Peter Watson

The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco

Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde

Corfu, Robert Dessaix

Affluenza, Clive Hamilton (see also here)

Troy: Shield of Thunder, David Gemmell

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

The Secret River, Kate Grenville

Thud, Terry Pratchett