Author: Thomas Fleming
Religio Philologi, Lessons for Septuagesima Sunday
Dr. Johnson once told Boswell that he often attended simple prayer services because he did not want people to think he only went to church to be entertained by the sermons. Those were the days!
Art For What’s Sake, Part VIII: The Artist
Are you saying that it makes a difference, what kind of a man the artist is? I mean a difference to his art.
Our Schedule
The good news is that we are leaving on Friday, January 28. We’re headed toward South Carolina….
Art for What’s Sake, VII: The Pornography of Violence
I brought up movies only because many of my favorites have a fair amount of violence in them, and you seem to be lumping violence with pornography.
The Autodidact: Homer
In this series, I want you to do your best to forget what you have been told to believe. We are going to concentrate more on what the Greeks said about themselves, and, more than that, we are going to compare what they said with how they lived.
Art for What’s Sake, VI: The Effect of Art
“You’re getting a little carried away. Next you’ll be telling us there are wrong flavors of ice cream or saying “no meatballs with spaghetti.” Yeah, I saw the movie.”
Poem: Semonides on Women
This translation of a early Greek iambic poem has been put up as a text to accompany the podcast on canceling the classics.
Art for What’s Sake, V: Aesthetic and/or Moral Judgments
How could we possibly talk about movies as art, if we don’t agree on what art is. It would be the same as talking about movies without knowing what a movie is. And, if everything depends on how we feel or on what gives us pleasure, then there is no basis for discussion.
