Fairies and Fate In the Ch. 29 vocabulary list in Wheelock, ‘fairy’ is listed as a derivative of Lat. fatum. I hadn’t known this, so I decided to look it up quickly in Continue Reading →
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 →
