Mary Pat Rogers

  Much like Lindsey Rall, I also recently had the opportunity to take in the sights of Oxford.  Once there, it didn’t take me long to walk into the courtyard of the Bodleian where the doors to the medieval lecture halls stand.  Like Mrs. Rall, I paused in front of the door to the Schola […]

In Institutio Oratoria, Quintilian praises Homer as the ideal poet-orator, “Homer provides the model and inspiration for every department of eloquence.” If Quintilian is right, then we must be willing to pay attention not only to what Homer and his characters say and how they say it, but also when they fall silent. Homer’s Iliad