Senior Editor Rhys Laverty introduces the Summer 2024 print edition of Ad Fontes.
Homer
Homer in Wittenberg: A Review
Uncovering the influence of Homer on Philip Melanchthon.
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“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....
“They Have No Blood and Are Called Immortal”: Homer’s Gods and the Son of God
On Iliad 5 and the blood of Christ.
Homer and Vergil: A Study in Contrasts, Bounded in a Nutshell
The difference between Homer and Vergil, in one line.
The Iliad, or the Poem of Honor
What is the driving force of Homer’s epic, and how should Christians think of it?
The Hero is the Bard: A Christian Perspective on Storytelling in the Odyssey
Unreliable narrators and metafiction aren’t just postmodern fads. They’re found at the foundation of Western literature.