More from Luther on obcenity, this time in Roman comedy.
E.J. Hutchinson
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.
“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....
“On St. John the Baptist” by Philip Melanchthon
An original translation of a Philip Melanchthon poem for the Nativity of John the Baptist.
Happy Alexander the Great Day!
Philip Melanchthon on Alexander the Great, on the anniversary of the latter’s death.