The Booklog:
Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
Justice is the central preoccupation of Greek moral and political thought... justice means originally something like the way things have always been, are now, and ought to be...
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The Booklog: Descent of Man, Ascent of Apes?
It has been many decades since I tried to read Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man. Like many other writers on human evolution, Darwin seems addicted to just-so stories...
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The Booklog: Dryden and Neoclassicism
Why did Byron and Scott, the two most popular Romantic writers in Britain, regard John Dryden as one of the great masters?...
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The Autodidact Blog
When people ask me “Why study the classics?” I give the same answer that has been given for past 2,500 years or more: So as not to be a stupid barbarian. As G.K. Chesterton remarked...
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