April 19

Topic: The Gates of Sleep

Readings:

• Aeneid 6.752-901
• Brooks Otis, "Three Problems of Aeneid 6," Transactions of the American Philological Association 90 (1959) 165-179.
• Agnes Kirsopp Michels, "The insomnium of Aeneas," Classical Quarterly 31 (1981) 140-146.
• H. C. Gotoff, "The Difficulty of the Ascent from Avernus," Classical Philology 80 (1985) 35-40.
• Richard Tarrant, "Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep," Classical Philology 77 (1982) 51-55.