The first step toward understanding the Greek mind—how they thought about human life, about right and wrong, and about politics—a word they bequeathed to us—will have to be to take a plunge into the violent world of the Iliad and Odyssey
Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and the 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
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,
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Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc, as well as the podcasts would have you believe that learning grammar is out of date.
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
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.
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.
It is time to work on the subjunctive. This is taken up by Olga Ragusa on p. 109. Plus a poem of Carducci.
I am a little puzzled by the Conservatives’ reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold birthright citizenship.
