Humanities
Thursday Apr 12th, 2012
Seneca in Spring-Time
April, says Eliot famously in the Wasteland, is the cruellest month, “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead ground, mixing/ Memory and desire”. Spring, in this shocking reversal of common tropes, is bad for precisely the reasons we usually think it good: because it involves a rebirth of what had seemed dead. Eliot’s poem, which will itself enact the rebirth or zombie resuscitation of many greatest hits of western literary culture, begins with… read more »
Wednesday May 16th, 2012
How did Rome last so long?
Why each age finds new questions to ask about the Roman Empire.
Thursday May 3rd, 2012
The bizarre history of the Oxford Latin Dictionary
Slow progress, the war, madness, and reference
Monday
Aug 29th, 2011
Nary a “philosopher king”: The long road from Plato to American politics
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