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Saturday, June 2, 2018

Homer's Iliad: Anti-Indoctrination

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Reading Homer’s Iliad is anti-indoctrination. Is Homer praising war and heroism or questioning their value? Is Homer advocating for the g...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Nautical Know-How

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"Before you try to steer, learn to row." --Aristophanes via Peter Green and his novel about Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman ...

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Study Break Is Over

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Friday, May 11, 2012

"Giving What I Have" : Peter Green, Translating the Argonautika, and the Enjoyment of Reading

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Classicist Peter Green is an inspiring scholar, translator, and novelist. I've quoted from his excellent The Laughter of Aphrodite: ...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Green's Sappho: Imagination and Desire

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It is easy to forget, also, how large a part of any poet's emotional life is conducted in the mind and the imagination --so much more re...

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