The Classical Journal 

About: The Classical Journal is an academic journal published by Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poetry & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 0009-8353. Over the lifetime, 449 publications have been published receiving 1857 citations. The journal is also known as: Classical Journal.

“His turn to cry:”: Tibullus’ marathus cycle (1.4, 1.8 and 1.9) and roman elegy

Abstract: This article rcsituates the Marathus cycle, unique in Roman elegy for its focus on homoerotic love, within its wider elegiac context, arguing that the poems may he read as an encapsulation of elegy as a whole. It focuses on the interchangeability of male and female roles to illustrate how the characters that populate these elegies both typify and reinforce the norms of Latin love elegy while nonetheless retaining the centrality of elegy’s male speaker.

Aeneas and the Doors of the Temple of Apollo

Abstract: In the first book of the Aeneid, Aeneas admires the decorations that adorn the temple of Juno at Carthage, portraying the events of the Trojan War. As he is taken up in contemplation, Dido comes into the temple. What scene is Aeneas contemplating at the moment when the queen comes in? He is looking at the fury of Penthesilea, who is inflamed by warlike spirits as she leads her hosts of Amazons into battle. At the moment of Dido's entry into the temple, Aeneas is observing a woman, a queen, who is destined to die, killed by the sword of a man who loves her.1