More from Luther on classical political philosophy.
E.J. Hutchinson
Luther’s Catullus (1): Addendum on Obscenity
More from Luther on obcenity, this time in Roman comedy.
Luther’s Catullus (1): Table Talk 4,4012
Martin Luther on a controversial Roman poet.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (3): Solomon as “Dr. Politics” (2)
More from Luther on the causes of political order.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (2): Solomon as “Dr. Politics”
Get ready to have some paradigms shattered.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (1)
Martin Luther on Aristotle and Cicero (with a bonus from Ovid for good measure).
Making Rome Great Again
Edward Gibbon on what made Rome a “great nation.”
“Love and Fear”: Another Epigram by Henrik Harder
An epigram on the love and fear of God.
Noblesse oblige: Two Epigrams by Henrik Harder
Below, please find my first new Henrik Harder translations since February. Unlike in the past, there are not one but two poems in this post, because they form a diptych that is, I hope you will agree, ingenious. I think that the Latin originals are both accomplished...
“Up All Night, Annas Gluts Himself”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.7
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius's hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same as the others. The Latin text: Nox intempesta. TERTIA PARS NOCTIS. Historia coram Pontificibus. CHRISTUS VINCTUS, ET adductus ad Annam. Zach....