Classics in Sarasota

Reading classical works aloud in Sarasota, and talking about them.

Sunday, December 02, 2012

Insights into Jews and Greeks

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A new book by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Jews and Words , treats the deep relation of Jews to books and the act of reading:   A...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Venetian artist at the Ringling

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The Ringling Museum is set to open an exhibit of Paolo Veronese's work . Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) was one of the giants of Venetia...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Liberal education is a conversation . . .

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Mark Kingwell, a teacher in Toronto, on returning to a humanistic basis for education: We philosophers don’t value Plato because he has...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Montaigne's beams and the cultivation of freedom

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A friend posted these links:. The first is a catalog of the inscriptions that Montaigne placed on the beams of his famous library. The...
Monday, October 08, 2012

An unusual wall painting in Pompeii.

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As we've often alluded to the complex relationship of the worldview of the Greeks to that of the Hebrews -- here's a painting found...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

US Gnoticism?

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For an informed discussion of the relation of Romanticism to religion -- a kind of anticipation of the "death of God" proclaimed...

Newton on the cusp

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Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

The Bible as philosophy

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Yoram Hazony What precisely is the content of the natural law ethics that emerges from the History of Israel? How is this ethics related to...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Classics in comic dress

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The Graphic Canon  (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with l...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Inferno 4

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Translated into English terza rima by Peter D’Epiro [Note: A revised version of this translation was posted on 3.23.15] A deafenin...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Eros in Plato

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Delancey Place offers "eclectic excerpts" from a large variety of books and blogs. You can subscribe and get them every day. Here...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

"a cultural language that we have learned to speak"

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Mary Beard in the New York Review of Books: Do the Classics Have a Future? the classics are embedded in the way we think about ourselv...
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