Tired of hearing about the Tea Parties? WaPo introduces the “Coffee Party”, which aims to “promote civility...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
The Oresteia is a monument to the advent of law and order over primitive cycles of vengeance....
Is Canada getting a tea party? The Economist suggests so, pointing to the Wildrose Alliance, a group...
Judging by the freshmen at my university (hereafter “Mall U”), I’d guess that high schools now assign...
Now we come to Theogony, Hesiod’s account of the old gods and the coming of the Olympians....
Note: I’d like to stick my toe in the political waters a bit here, but do not...
The Mesopotamians lived in a world that, at first glance, reminds one of the Ancient Greeks. There...
Continuing in the theme of the soldier’s dilemma, we have the Bhagavad-Gita, an excerpt from the Indian...
Perhaps inappropriately, Mister Kain’s recent post about populist conservatism comes to mind because I’m reading Hesiod, who...
Long before they were recorded, the Homeric legends were the material of traveling oral bards who composed...
I’m always amazed to read essays on classical music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The writers,...
Western literature begins with The Iliad and, until recently, it was assumed that no educated person in...
“Hateful, and fain of love more hateful still, Foul is the bird that rends another bird, And...
A professor in my History department, known colloquially as “the department anarchist”, and I spent an afternoon...
