Our Fall meetings will center on Dante's Purgatorio . We'll be using Allen Mandelbaum's translation , which includes the origina...

One question to consider is the recurrent image of reading that occurs in The Confessions. What significance might attach to those salient m...

Some further online resources on Augustine. Here is an edition of the Confessions in Latin with commentary in English by noted scholar Jame...

I still thought that it is not we who sin but some other nature that sins within us. It flattered my pride to think that I incurred no guilt...

See this useful discussion of the Tabernacle , with references to an annotated online version of Exodus . A replica of the Tabernacle is des...

Looking ahead to May, when we will read St. Augustine's Confessions , Arline has suggested this Oxford edition . The translation is by H...

Our next session is devoted to Lycurgus , the legendary lawgiver of Sparta. Plutarch's Life, translated by Dryden, is here . As we are i...

On March 29, Mary Rosner will begin our reading of Exodus. The first 20 chapters are filled with narrative action. What is the essential sto...

The Republic begins during a festival at Piraeus in honor of Bendis , a goddess recently imported to Athens from Thrace. The settings of Pl...

For our meetings on March 8th and March 22nd, Pat will take up selections from Plato's Republic . Any edition of the text is fine, sever...

Click on the images for larger versions: Guido Reni, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, c. 1631 Michaelangelo, Jacob Joseph , Sistine ceiling

On Feb. 8 we'll begin the last story of the first book of the Bible, the Joseph story (Gen. 37-50). We'll continue our reading on Fe...