On Bob Dylan and MOBY-DICK.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
Conan the Dionysian?
On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.
“‘But Tacitus—I Hate Tacitus”: Melville against Classical Education?
On an Ovidian allusion in Melville’s last novel.
Luther’s Lucretius (1)
On a citation of Lucretius by Martin Luther.
Paul as Pentheus? (Updated)
On Euripides in the Acts of the Apostles.
Marx’s Aeschylus
On Marx reading Aeschylus (in Greek!).
Edward Gibbon and the Decline of the Pre-Christian Empire
On Gibbon and the causes of decline.
Luther’s Catullus (4): Catullus and Solomon
On Luther, Catullus, and Ecclesiastes.
“I Contain Multitudes”: The Greek Dylan
"I Contain Multitudes" is the opening track on Bob Dylan's 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. The title is an allusion to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself, 51": The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.And proceed to fill my next fold of the future....
Luther’s Catullus (3): Catullus and the Desert Fathers
More on Luther and Catullus 64.