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This paper investigates the influence of the Aeneid on the ninth poem of Prudentius’ Peristephanon. In the poem, Prudentius is on his way to Rome when he discovers the tomb of St. Cassian, and an account of the saint’s passion follows. The framing narrative employs some of the conventions of pilgrimage literature, while the poem as a whole contains allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid, and I argue that through these allusions Prudentius models his journey to Rome on the travels of Aeneas. This can be seen as part of Prudentius’ larger project to map Christian sites of interest onto the Roman empire.

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This chapter illustrates how Brian O’Nolan, author of the Cruiskeen Lawn columns in The Irish Times from the 1940s to the 1960s under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen, occupied a liminal position between intelligentsia and mob, modern and postmodern, Irish and English, classical and medieval. His columns, with their wide variety of classical allusions and multilingual use of classical language, Irish and English, underline the changing attitudes to classical learning in Ireland during the mid-twentieth century, not least in respect of the ‘nativist’ privileging of the Irish language in Celtic Studies. O’Nolan’s code-switching between Latin and Irish, and his glosses on other portions of the newspaper recall the practice of medieval scribes, implying that the Irish language is historically connected with classical learning.