More on Homer in Dylan. The post A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”: Dylan and Homer, Again appeared first on Ad Fontes.| Ad Fontes
This is the final post in a three-part series on the mortal human body in two classic works of literature: Homer’s Iliad and Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Though the topic may seem morbid, …| joshuamcnall.com
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There is more at stake in hospitality than meets the eye. The realm of hosting is a privileged context for discovering and enacting our human identity, which means also our divine calling. And home will always be the central place of hospitality. Guests are sent from the gods: such is a recurring theme in Homer. […]| LifeCraft
✨Save the Date: 25/09/25✨ I’m excited to announce that YOU ARE ODYSSEUS is now available to pre-order! You can order wherever you normally order your books, but here are my favourite (UK) links: Bl…| Greek Myth Comix
One of my summer reads this year was a slow journey through Homer’s Iliad—the great archetype of our war stories, action movies, and (in a way) superhero universes. Among other insights, I was stru…| joshuamcnall.com
In Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s “Iliad” in the Fight for a Dying World, award-winning author, Edith Hall argues that the classics can help us understand the long history... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Discover the tale of Mnemosyne, the Titaness of memory, and her nine daughters, the Muses, who inspire art and creativity in our world.| Myth Crafts
With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One new release that I hope gets all […] The post From the Caves–Thea Prieto appeared first on The Kenyon Review.| The Kenyon Review
In these three online lectures, I discuss the significance and meaning of the poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil, Ovid, and Horace. In other words, these three lectures form a cohesive exploration into the Greek and Latin classics, the meaning of classic poetry, and why it still matters. LECTURE ONE: HOMER & THE […]| Discourses on Minerva
On August 24th, 2024, Elon Musk, who is currently one of the richest, most powerful, and most influential human beings on the planet, tweeted, “Can’t recommend The Iliad enough! Best as Penguin audiobook at 1.25 speed.” He accompanied these words with a link to the audiobook edition of E. V. Rieu’s 1946 prose translation of … Continue reading "What’s the Problem with Elon Musk’s ‘Iliad’ Advice?"| Tales of Times Forgotten
There is dignity and value in work. You who live in America once knew this. You did not think lesser of a man because he got his hands dirty with honest toil. To the contrary, you thought it a grand thing to build and to create. But all that has changed. (imaginative letter from Homer by Louis Markos)| The Imaginative Conservative
Church of the Holy Mother On the lonely island that rests on the Aegean’s knee Church of Panagia Episkopi lies cradled in the bosom of the hill I climb.| Mediterranean Poetry
To what extent are literary epics the children of their own times, expressions of their own particular zeitgeist, and to what extent are they expressions of perennial truths that transcend fads, fashions and other temporal ephemera? Considering the epics of Homer and Virgil will enable us to understand these questions and to move towards answering them. (essay by Joseph Pearce)| The Imaginative Conservative
Ever wanted your own little version of That Resourceful Man to do with as you please? Now you can have him pinned to your fridge or other magnet-friendly surface, along with his tunic, armour, boar…| Greek Myth Comix Shop
ODYSSEUS IN COLOUR 12 full-colour images of Odysseus at different stages in the Odyssey with transparent backgrounds, for use in your personal or classroom projects! Make your Odyssey not…| Greek Myth Comix Shop
