In my Representative Masterpieces course, I conclude with Dante’s “Inferno,” where we see sinners creating their own hells.
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Homer, Virgil & Dante Visit the Afterlife
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Odysseus’s Emasculation Anxieties
“The Odyssey” is obsessed with a fear of emasculation.
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What Do Odysseus’s Monsters Mean?
My explanation for the monsters in “The Odyssey.”
Shelley Predicted Microsoft’s AI Problems
Monday My son Tobias Wilson-Bates, currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, recently published a short essay about robotics and literature in a school newsletter. Sign me up immediately for the Proud Fathers Club. The relationship between machines and literature has long fascinated Tobias, which makes Georgia Tech a good place for him […]
