More on Gladstone A couple of days ago I mentioned Burkert’s reference to William Ewart Gladstone’s noticing of the connection between the Enuma Elish and Homer in Burk Continue Reading →
‘The Roman World: Religions and Everday Life’/Dayton Art Institute Not sure if this has already been posted elsewhere, but in case it hasn’t…Mosaics to highlight Rome exhibitBy Meredith MossStaff WriterTuesday, Sept Continue Reading →
When Politicians Knew Homer In his article called ‘The Logic of Cosmogony’, Walter Burkert writes, in a passage regarding how ancients attempted to tell the tale about ‘the begin Continue Reading →