Horace Odes I.10: Mercuri   facunde   nepos   Atlantis , qui   feros   cultus   hominum   recentum voce   formasti   catus   et   decorae ...

NPR had an interesting story recently about Botticelli's painting, Venus and Mars . Apparently no scholar had noticed until now that in...

Horace tacitly assumes his readers will be entirely familiar with  Aristotle's Poetics , which he cites, alludes to, and plays off of th...

Beginning July 7, as agreed, we'll be reading a few 17th Century British poets. Mussy has been looking at online resources and sent some...

From A.S. Kline's online Horace: Bk I Ep V:1-31 An invitation to dinner If you can bear to recline at dinner on a couch By  Archias ,...

After Horace, the plan is to look at a few 17th Century British poets, to expand our context for Milton. There are some resources on the Net...

In today's times, Stanley Fish, former Milton scholar and current New York Times blogger, offers " A Classical Education, Back to ...

June 16    Ars Poetica June 30    Ars poetica July 7th    Ars Poetica or 17th C. British Poets (Milton's contemporaries) July 21  ...

Horace didn't call his poem about poetry "Ars Poetica" - that title was conferred only later. It was known in his day as the t...

I saw Heidegger then as one of many thinkers who believe humanity took a wrong turn of thought or action that distorted its true nature. Sci...

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in...

Prometheus bound, Laconian black-figure amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums PROMETHEUS was the  Titan god  of forethought and cr...