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Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc, as well as the podcasts would have you believe that learning grammar is out of date.
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Wednesday’s Child: Life and Dust
A couple of times a year I cook borsch. Fits of nostalgia aren’t the reason, and I would make this wholesome soup more often if beets, its principal ingredient, were easier to come by in the south of Italy.
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
Wednesday’s Child: Rorschach Slop
I would be somewhat offended if the gentle reader thought even for a moment that I had watched this film before writing about it.
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.
Wednesday’s Child: Opus Signinum
Continuing last week’s ruminations about things that endure and are to be celebrated for their virtue…
Wednesday’s Child: Vicissitudes
On other occasions I have shared with the gentle reader my experience of the precariousness characteristic of an unemployed writer’s life…
Lower Than Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
