From BBC : The Athenian experiment is notable not merely for the talents it produced: three of the greatest tragedians – Aeschylus, Sopho...

While we are on break for the summer, I've enjoyed a couple of Dante-related resources which might be of interest. While Dante had no...

Aside from an external preoccupation that's consumed a lot of my time recently, internal properties of the text have slowed our ascent...

As Dante/pilgrim approaches the Primum Mobile, the ninth sphere of Paradise, he is verging on a place beyond particulars, beyond the indiv...

. . . out of Norse mythology and archaic names (Danish: solhunde (sun dog), Norwegian: solhund (sun dog), Swedish: solvarg (sun wolf))...

πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει Many things are singular, none moreso than man Told that the fourth light that ...

E come a lume acuto si disonna   per lo spirto visivo che ricorre   a lo splendor che va di gonna in gonna,    e lo svegliato ciò c...

Our group meets every other week, but our progress in Paradiso has slowed. The cantos of the theological virtues might seem simpler than ...

Paradiso 25 begins se mai . . .  -- if ever . . . - the strange foolishness of the phenomenon is all right there. Does one "need...

Right at the beginning of  On The Trinity   Augustine sets forth a theory of the mode of the Bible. It is made for little people, even chi...

After the leap of  Paradiso 23,  Dante face a quiz. The one asking the questions is none other than Peter -- the first man to put faith in...

“Tu se' sì presso a l'ultima salute,” cominciò Bëatrice, “che tu dei aver le luci tue chiare e acute;  e però, prima che tu più ...