Once again Manning and Brady square off, reminding us of Achilles and Hector.
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Tag Archives: Iliad
Manning vs. Brady, Hector vs. Achilles
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Football, Homer, NFL, Peyton Manning, Sports, Tom Brady Comments closed
The Iliad and Higher Ed’s MOOCish Future
MOOCs–Massive Open On-line Courses–can never teach lit as well as small classes.
Antigone Would Bury Boston Bomber
Sophocles and Homer present compelling cases for granting full funeral rights to the Boston Marathon bomber.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ajax, Antigone, Boston Marathon bombing, funerals, Homer, Odyssey, Sophocles, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism Comments closed
Will Kevin Durant Suffer Akhilleus’s Fate?
Kevin Durant is like Akhilleus. In more ways than one.
Bulls vs. Heat, a Homeric Battle
I designate the Miami Heat as the Greeks in Homer’s Iliad. After all, they represent a kind of dream team, kings from different city states coming together to seek glory. The Bulls are like the Trojans in that they have only one top-tier fighter. Derrick Bell is their Hector.
Manning vs. Brady, Hector vs. Achilles
Sports Saturday Tomorrow will witness the fiercest rivalry in American football—and maybe in American sports—as Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts travels to Boston to play against Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. Many are beginning to believe that football has never seen a quarterback rivalry that matches this one. Which of the two […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Football, Homer, Peyton Manning, Sports, Tom Brady Comments closed
Learning to Live with E-Readers
Gustave Dore, Don Quixote An e-reader has entered our family. Here’s how it happened. My son Toby is studying for his English Ph.D preliminaries and wanted to spend a month reading 19th century British works in the family Maine cottage. He was accompanied by his girlfriend Candice, who is writing qualifying essays for her dissertation. […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Don Quixote, electronic books, Homer, Miguel Cervantes, Odyssey, print culture, publishing, reading, technology Comments closed