And the Winner is.....

Chloe Pierre-Louis! Congratulations to Chloe for highest overall point total in this Section. Your book prize will be on its way shortly!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Herodotus Outline

map: http://www.heritage-history.com/maps/ancient/class002.jpg summary 1 http://www.livius.org/articles/person/herodotus/herodotus-histories summary2 http://www.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/Herodotus.html (not hyperlinked): http://employees.csbsju.edu/mcook/Courses/History/outline.herodotus.html Khan Academy - Cyrus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqEEndY0sT8
Read more

From Cave to Cave - The Vision of Er, the Sibyl, and Sustainability

It may seem jarring to transition from Plato’s Republic , written sometime before 348 BCE, and Vergil’s Aeneid, written , at the very least, three hundred years later. We have to move from a waning democracy in Athens, where the threat of Macedonian power was growing unchecked, and the dominance of King Philip was becoming a foregone conclusion, to Rome, about 650 miles westward, where in 348 BCE the city was still relatively small and angling for local superiority against its central Italian neighbors. We must cross the divide between the extensive domain of Greek culture -- all the way from Sicily to the Indus river, where it had been seeded under Alexander the Great and his generals -- to the hinterlands of Europe where illiterate nations lived a mostly nomadic existence. By Virgil’s time, Greek dominion of the East  --  Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Egypt -- had passed into Roman hands. Rome’s Republican institutions were already gutted in Vergil’s youth, and that cent...
Read more

Dios Apate -The Deception of Zeus (Iliad 14.153ff)

The Power of Eros is enshrined in this scene; we may begin our consideration of Calypso in the Odyssey here (eros as concealer of historical forces). Meanwhile  Hera  soon reached  Gargarus , the summit of lofty  Ida .  Zeus , the Cloud-Driver, saw her, and instantly his sharp mind was overwhelmed by longing, as in the days when they first found love, sleeping together without their dear parents’ knowledge. Standing there he called to her: ‘Hera, what brings you speeding from Olympus? And where are your chariot and horses?’ Queen Hera replied, artfully: ‘I am off to the ends of fruitful earth, to visit  Oceanus , source of all the gods, and Mother  Tethys . They nursed and cherished me lovingly in their halls. I will visit them and bring their ceaseless quarrel to an end. They have been estranged for a long time now, from love and the marriage bed, ever since their hearts were embittered. My horses wait at the foot of Ida of many streams, and they ...
Read more