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Sunday, March 06, 2011
Nine Lives (of the Poets): Horace!
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Our book today is Archibald Campbell's big fat dense opinionated 1924 volume Horace , which is, pound for pound, my favorite book on Qui...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
Nine Lives (of the Poets): Pindar!
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Our book today is Anne Pippin Burnett 's 2008 entry in the great Bristol Classical Press "Ancients in Action" series, Pindar ....
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Penguins on Parade: Ovid's Metamorphoses!
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Some Penguin Classics certainly qualify as secular scripture, which we probably need after a dose of the holies. We all have a shelf of suc...
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Friday, December 26, 2008
The Golding Ovid!
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Our book today is not just Ovid's epic, twisty-delightful poem The Metamorphoses but one particular English version of it: the transla...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
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Our book today is Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, John Boswell's immensely researched and groundbreaking 1980 study o...
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