Conan the Dionysian?
On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.
On an Ovidian allusion in Melville's last novel.
On a citation of Lucretius by Martin Luther.
On Euripides in the Acts of the Apostles.
On Marx reading Aeschylus (in Greek!).
On Gibbon and the causes of decline.
On Luther, Catullus, and Ecclesiastes.
“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…
More on Luther and Catullus 64.
On translating poetry.
