Recurring columns from Ad Fontes contributors.
The United States did not inaugurate Protestant faith and doctrine. Protestant churches—Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed—preexisted the American republic. Yet Americanist presumptions have been taken as holy writ by Protestants throughout the history of the United States, with interesting and sometimes horrifying consequences.
There's no easy way to say, "apomnemoneumata."
“For if God is not angered by the impious and the unjust, by no means does he love the pious and the just.”
To paraphrase the words of Lady Wisdom to Boethius, “Stuff happens.”
More on Homer in Dylan.
The figure of zeugma in Vergil's AENEID and Bob Dylan's "Isis."
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.
Speaking poetically in the works of A.E. Housman, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan.
On Peter Wehner's Plato.
