Yearly Archive: 2021

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Film

29 Jun, 2021

Herodotus: The Ionian Revolt

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Miletus came to terms with the Persians and installed a pro-Persian regime that was headed, some 25 years later, by Histiaeus.  When Darius the Great was retreating in disarray from Scythia, the Greeks were protecting the bridge, which made the retreat possible.  As Herodotus tells the story, the Scythians approached the Greeks and advised them to burn the bridge.  Miltiades the Athenian,  who had become a wealthy potentate in Thrace,  was all in favor, but Histiaeus of Miletus dissuaded the other Ionians from following this advice.  

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Fleming

29 Jun, 2021

Summer Seminar: Chronology, Bibliography, Information

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This is the second draft of the Chronology–from Rome to Mussolini. I have also included prose translations of several poems of Agathias Scholasticus, the historian who completed Procopius’ unfinished history of Justinian’s wars. I hope also to post translations of Sidonius Apollinaris and Venantius Fortunatus.

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Fleming / Free Content

24 Jun, 2021

Who’ll Stop the Rain?

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As politicians go, the governor of Florida is one of the best we have, but he is not an educated man and does not at all understand the evils that have been perpetrated by American public education, and, since he does not understand the causes of the problem, he is incapable of devising a workable solution.

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Feature / Fleming

22 Jun, 2021

From Abraham to Napoleon: Revival

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The empire of the Babylonians was not fated to last, and Cyrus the Persian, after entering the city in triumph in 539, promulgated an edict authorizing the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.  It has been conjectured that the Persians were rewarding Babylonian Jews for their covert assistance in the defeat of Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king, but, there is no need to posit such a special relationship.   Cyrus’s general policy was to reverse the forced resettlement of inflicted on subject nations by Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, whose strategy of divide et impera would be emulated by later tyrants.

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Poetry

21 Jun, 2021

Poems by Patrick Kavanagh

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Born in rural Ireland (the town of Inniskeen) in 1904, Patrick Kavanagh was a poet, novelist, goalkeeper, and film critic. In my not so humble opinon, he was by far the best Irish poet since Yeats. There is more truth in “Epic” than an in hundred literary articles on Homer.