Homer’s “Iliad” functions as a leadership clinic. So don’t heed Plato’s dismissal of the poet.
Tag Archives: Homer
The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.
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First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…
In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beloved, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, GOP, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, Toni Morrison Comments closed
The Olympics Owe a Debt to Poetry
The modern Olympics owe a debt to poetry.
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Saving the Classics from Ideologues
A Univ. of Chicago classicist fears the alt-right will appropriate the classics for their own ends.
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A Partial Defense of Plato’s Poet Ban
Perhaps Plato banished poets from his ideal society because he appreciated the destructive potential of stories. He’s relevant in light of today’s conspiracy theories.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1Q84, Aeschylus, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Euripides, Haruki Murakami, philosophy vs. poetry, Plato, QAnon, Republic, Sophocles Comments closed
Black Lives Matter Changes the Canon
Black Lives Matter is getting some professors to rethink works they had previously defended
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Homer, Virgil & Dante Visit the Afterlife
In my Representative Masterpieces course, I conclude with Dante’s “Inferno,” where we see sinners creating their own hells.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeneid, Beowulf, Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, John Bunyan, John Milton, monsters, Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Pilgrim's Progress, Sin, Virgil Comments closed
