Yesterday I met and chatted with the incredible Robin Nisbet who is such an authority on Horace. I found it amazing that he could quote Ode numbers, which books they were from and give all the Latin titles I'm in the process of re-working Odes Book I, I'm right in the middle of it and I couldn't do that! - what a fantastic mine of information he was. Coincidentally a couple of days ago I borrowed 'A Commentary on Horace Odes, Book I' by him and Margaret Hubbard, so I was able to tell him how helpful I was finding that commentary as well as gaining his wonderful insight into Horace the man.

Actually I had a really busy day yesterday because I was interviewed by Professor Lorna Hardwick for the Living Poets Section of the archive of the Open University Reception of Classical Texts Research Project which is now starting a new phase of research on the relationship between classical texts and modern poetry in English with grant support from the British Academy.

I look forward to the day when the results of this research are on line. Their website is at
www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays

I'm back looking at Ode 1.35 which is really complex, but I've managed to get a first draft and am hoping that when Professor Harrison looks at it, it won't be too far from the mark.