Trying on a new hat this week, exploring two wide-spread errors in how people view ancient thought.
Tag: Ancient History
REVIEW: Ships & Shores (Part 2)
Last week we began voyaging through the Jonstown Compendium’s Titanic-class labor of love Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela, by Martin Helsdon, with a review of the fiction narrative “A Periplus of Southern Genertela.” This week that voyage continues with evaluating “Ships & Shores,” the book’s largely-nonfiction treatise on ancient seafaring. We’ll conclude by considering … Continue reading REVIEW: Ships & Shores (Part 2)
REVIEW: Nemesis
An ancestral curse, political subterfuge, religious blasphemy, military invasion, a cuckolded king, and a heroic last stand—it's truly astonishing that HBO hasn't yet made a series about Alcibiades. I first met him, bellowing and drunk, while reading Symposium in undergrad. There, Plato ascribes to him a tongue-in-cheek biography of their shared mentor, Socrates. Indeed, Socrates' … Continue reading REVIEW: Nemesis
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