A long drive recently allowed me to listen to the unabridged audiobook of Homer’s Odyssey. It was worth all 780+ minutes. Hearing the poem helped me understand why it is foundational to the Western understanding of human life, and how archetypal…
Ever since I started teaching the Divine Comedy years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for lacunae. Just when I think I’ve found one, it turns out Dante has covered it with incomparable sagesse. Take gamblers. Why don’t we find them in Hell? Well,…
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito, wrote the Roman poet Virgil in the First Century B.C. It’s commonly translated from the Latin as “Do not give in to evils but proceed ever more boldly against them.” This is what truly good and…
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