Prof. Roseanne Martorella indicates that this presentation at NYU's Casa Italiana will be available via streaming this coming Tuesday...

From a Paris Review interview with the delightful Umberto Eco: Compared to beauty and ugliness, comedy is terrifying. I’m not talking ab...

προσαναγκάζειν τὸν Σωκράτη ὁμολογεῖν αὐτοὺς τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι κωμῳδίαν καὶ τραγῳδίαν ἐπίστασθαι ποιεῖν , καὶ τὸν τέχνῃ...

So we are considering setting Dante's Paradiso as our reading beginning in the fall. It's a formidable text, and anyone who intends...

proof ( πίστις ) is a sort of demonstration ( ἀπόδειξίς ) Let Rhetoric be defined as the faculty of discovering in the particular case w...

We've looked at the lonely anguish of the abandoned Philoctetes, and how even the chorus was moved by the wounded man's condition: ...

One reason that the  Philoctetes is an extraordinary work -- a classic -- is that it takes on one of the most difficult confrontations ima...