Stephen Mitchell has a new treatment of the Iliad: It's Not All Greek to Him The 'rock star' of translators produces a daring ne...

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls .

Arline sends this link to a remarkable aerial tour of Israel : Watch it in full screen mode if possible. Its a preview of Jerusalem , an IMA...

This recent NPR story about a debate over belief in a literal Adam and Eve raises some interesting interpretive points. While there's...

I'll be curious to see how Esotericism and the Academy , due in 2012, develops this fascinating topic: View larger image Esotericism an...

Hooke, Micrographia In this interview, novelist Neal Stephenson touches on a peculiar aspect of the age of Milton and Newton: The medieval ...

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Anyone who subscribes to the New York Review of Books should have a look at Stephen Greenblatt's piece, "The Lonely Gods." He...

Little could be further from the dramatic turns of Milton's Lycidas than this simple expression of pure, helpless grief: By ways remote ...

Shaw sends us a link from this month's Harper's Mag marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible: KING JAMES, REVISED Hist...

From a review of Harold Bloom's latest book, The Anatomy of Influence . “The Anatomy of Influence” is Bloom’s effort — his last, he says...

Here's a poem composed by John Milton when he was in his teens. His deep acquaintance with Ovid among other ancients is apparent in the ...