Demeter I was getting caught up this morning on The Comics Curmudgeon, Josh Fruhlinger’s excellent blog (where Uncle Lumpy is currently doing a fine job in re
Pigs and Ships in the Odyssey (Updated) (I use Lattimore’s translation in what follows.)As Odysseus approaches the home of the swineherd Eumaios in Book 14 of the Odyssey, we get a descripti Continue Reading →
Logic(s) ‘It was the myths, above all, that seemed to defy rational analysis and to give rise to the idea that their makers were rambling around in a kind of m Continue Reading →