Sandro Botticelli's image of Dante's Inferno is one of several artistic representations that can be found on Wikipedia's entry ...

Corot: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (1861) The story of Orpheus and Eurydice was an ancient Greek myth and source of cultic...

Augustine, a man of late classical Roman antiquity, is so basic to the shaping of the Middle Ages that a few more sources are in order. Here...

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...