The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, October 15, 2017 “Course of Treatment” by Linda Pastan from Insomnia. © Norton, 2015. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 It's the birthday of the English novelist and humorist P.G. Wodehouse (1881), who once wrote of a character, "She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression." Wodehouse was best known for creating the characters of wealthy but featherbrained Bertie Wooster and and his supercilious valet, Jeeves. They appeared in more than 10 novels and 30 stories.
One quibble.
Concerning the discussion of The Aeneid:
It is exactly backward to say that Aeneas “travelled home” to found Rome.
Yes, in the epic he founds Rome, but as one of the sons of Priam, the king of Troy, the story tells of Aeneas’s flight _from_ his home following the sack of Troy.
One quibble.
Concerning the discussion of The Aeneid:
It is exactly backward to say that Aeneas “travelled home” to found Rome.
Yes, in the epic he founds Rome, but as one of the sons of Priam, the king of Troy, the story tells of Aeneas’s flight _from_ his home following the sack of Troy.