Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.
Tag Archives: Homer
Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeneid, Afterlife, Dante, death, Divine Comedy, Inferno, inner doubts, midlife crisis, Odyssey, Paradiso, Samuel Johnson, Virgil Comments closed
How Lit Inspires Courage and Love
Fletcher in “Masterworks” argues that epic narrative can boost courage and lyric disclosure can do the same for love.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fragment 16", "He seems to me a god", Angus Fletcher, courage, Iliad, literature as self help, love, Masterworks, Odyssey, Sappho Comments closed
God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "the light that came to lucille clifton", Alice Walker, Artist's Way, Ceremony, Color Purple, Creativity, Intimations of Immortality, Ion, John Milton, Julia Cameron, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, poetic muse, Republic, William Wordsworth Comments closed
On Trump, Achilles, and Retribution
Trump has been threatening retribution on his enemies. The Iliad shows the corrosive effects of revenge.
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Is Your Life Epic? Ask the Gods
A visit to an Irish literature museum alerted me to this Patrick Kavanagh about what makes something epic.
Homeric Tactics Anticipate Ukraine’s
War scenes from the Iliad bring to mind the Battle of Bakhmut–especially when it comes to superior Ukrainian intelligence gathering.
Paris, Trump, and Accountability
The way Priam enables Paris is similar to how the GOP enables Trump. Utter disaster awaits.
On Homer and Rethinking My Father
The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged determinism, fatalism, Iliad, Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Bates Comments closed
Odysseus’s Authoritarian Power Play
Homer shows the dynamics of authoritarianism at work in an “Iliad” incident where Odysseus disciplines a critic of the Greek mission.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged authoritarianism, Fascism, Iliad, John Stoehr, Laughter, police violence, Thomas Hobbes, white supremacy Comments closed
