Italian: Delitto al Pinot Nero
We’ll be taking up more subjunctive forms and uses and looking closely again at the Passato Rimoto.
Crime in the Pinot Noir
Author: Thomas Fleming
America the Savage
I read the comments on articles on various new sites, including the Daily Mail, for whom I used to write an online column. Typical is the response to a piece on the In-N-Out Burger shootings in Idaho. Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and th only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups, I blame the pro-gun rightwingers more, because they have a much stronger sense of reality, but their incessant name-calling...
Darkness Visible, the Elizabethans, Part V: The School of Night
So far, we have learned that the Renaissance, while it certainly celebrated human reason, also witnessed the revival of neopagan, anti-Christian magic. This Hermetic movement, which takes its name from the writings written under the name Hermes Trismegistus, aimed at finding the secrets of making gold, creating living creatures, liberating men from the Christian religion and Christian morality,
Italian IV.4: More Subjunctive Forms
Nearly every popular Italian language series with which I am familiar, including Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc, as well as the podcasts would have you believe that learning grammar is out of date.
Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, IV
Unfortunately, neopaganism does not merely have a dark side. It is the dark side of the classical revival in general and of Hellenism in particular
Revisiting the Odyssey, II
This then is a summary of what very little we know of the Greeks down to the time of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Since writing disappeared with the rest of Mycenaean civilization, a poet would have to rely on traditions handed down to him over a period of 4 centuries—10 or 12 generations.
Reconsidering the Odyssey, I
Christopher Nolan’s new film “version” is out, and although I have not yet seen it, I am going to put up some sections of a long-promised but never delivered set of lectures on the Ancient Greek Mind. This first section takes up the question of “who were the Greeks?”, though I have eliminated most of the historical details of the lectures.
Greek I.42 WITH TRANSLATION AUDIO. Greek sentences corrected
I have been completely tied up the past few weeks with our Summer School. Besides, a little vacation from time to time refreshes the brain and the appetite to learn.
Black Magic: The Elizabethans, III
One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and perfect societies, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.
