In "Narrow Way," on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday I could have thrown them all in the seaToday, even one may be too much for me The bolded line...
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Holly as Homer, Dylan as Ennius: The Rock and Roll Singer as Epic Bard
On poetic inspiration and transmigration in Homer, Ennius, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Summer 2024
Senior Editor Rhys Laverty introduces the Summer 2024 print edition of Ad Fontes.
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.