Monday I won’t take credit for this but Washington Post’s Molly Roberts recently penned a very Better-Living-with Beowulf type column where she contrasted two Democratic presidential candidates by examining which version of the Odysseus/Ulysses story they prefer. Her piece gives me an excuse to apply other versions of the story to various 2020 contenders. Roberts […]
Tag Archives: Aeneid
Will Odysseus Shape 2020 Election?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2020 election, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Beto O'Rourke, Donald Trump, Finnegans Wake, Homer, James Joyce, Joe Biden, Joseph Campbell, Odyssey, Pete Buttigieg, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Virgil Comments closed
Spirituality in Nature
John Gatta’s “Spirit of Place in American Literary Culture” explains why we find certain places, in nature and in civilization, to be infused with spirit.
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Camilla, the Woman Who Fights Back
Camilla is a woman who fights back against Aeneas. It prove to be all in vain, which may be the case of those opposing rightwing justices on the Supreme Court.
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Troy and California’s Fires
Imagine Aeneas awaking to fires burning his city. Now imagine being a California resident in a fire-prone area.
Poetry, the Road to Virtuous Action
Sir Philip Sidney believed that poetry was the most powerful means of leading us to virtuous action.
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Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic
Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.
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Fired by Happy Valley, JoPa Is No Aeneas
Just as Rasselas questions Samuel Johnson’s Happy Valley, so do Penn State students find themselves questioning their own Happy Valley after the child abuse scandal. Coach Joe Paterno admired Aeneas, and many feel abandoned like Queen Dido.
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