Great Books Bracket Round 2
After a first round full of mind-blowing upsets it’s time for a loaded second round
Homer
Pain, Honor, and the Human Spirit
Rod Dreher has been following a reflection by Tony Woodlief over HERE: The article by Tony and the comments by Rod were so provocative (in the good sense) that I got carried away and wrote what became too long a comment. Here’s what I wrote, but I have to urge you to read the original …
POTW: The Odyssey – On Dangerous Women & Their Looms
Classics Christian Classical education is “logo-centric” (among other things) – driven by language, in love with words, books, literature, truth; both logos and the Logos. Living in a time of confused and devalued language, then, proves difficult for many of us. To use one example, the title of “classic” can now apply to any book …
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Odysseus of the Many Designs
The highest high point of classical education was its beginning. There never has been and never will be a poet as perfect as Homer. All of the Greeks acknowledged that he was their teacher. All of them walked down trails he blazed. Nobody compares but Moses and Christ. There were other high points. Socrates and …
CiRCE Summer Institute: Day 1 Journal
As you perhaps know we are currently at the beautiful Chetola Resort in Blowing Rock, NC for the CiRCE Summer Institute, this year a conversation about Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Mr. Jonathan Councell, our friend from Veritas Classical School in Asheville, NC volunteered to journal his experience here at the retreat. The following is …
How to Love the Odyssey
I may as well admit that I didn’t like the Iliad very much the first time I read it. It was Samuel Butler’s translation and while it moves fairly quickly and is interesting, he didn’t seem to have the music of Homer in his voice. Others like this translation very much, so I won’t say …