Hesiod’s “Works and Days”

By |2019-10-16T15:48:45-05:00January 19th, 2014|Categories: Books, Classics, Greek Epic Poetry, Labor/Work, Poetry, Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg|Tags: |

The centuries ebb and flow on a cosmic tide between faithfulness and depravity as men commit their lives to a seemingly infinite range of virtuous and vicious acts. Though man tears himself away from the face of God in pursuit of idols, God never abandons His creation. The glorious age of the Ancient Greek pagans has [...]

Do You Know What an Odyssey Is?

By |2023-05-21T11:32:04-05:00May 26th, 2013|Categories: Classics, E.B., Eva Brann, Featured, Greek Epic Poetry, Homer, Liberal Learning, Odyssey, Senior Contributors, St. John's College, Wisdom|

My title is a question: “Do you know what an odyssey is?” I am asking each of you to ask yourself: “Do I know what an odyssey is?” In learning as in traveling and, of course, in lovemaking, all the charm lies in not coming too quickly to the point, but in meandering around for [...]

A Poem for Men: The Iliad by Homer

By |2021-02-15T15:42:25-06:00April 18th, 2012|Categories: Classics, Featured, Greek Epic Poetry, Homer, Iliad, Literature|Tags: |

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Herbert Jordan (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008) It is noteworthy that when the freedman Livius Andronicus (c. 250 B.C.) gave the Romans their first translation of Homer it was the Odyssey, not the Iliad he chose to render in the old Saturnian verse: Virum mihi Camena, insece versutum, [...]

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