Shakespeare Reception I want to recommend this article, linked through Arts & Letters Daily. It’s about Shakespeare’s universality and the reception of his plays in oth Continue Reading →
Grandmaster Samuel Butler Samuel Butler (discussed previously regarding Homer’s gender), is the source of a quotation that I use with one of my classes to illustrate ‘ratiocina Continue Reading →
Classical Languages as ‘Delicate Instruments of Communication’ ‘The ancient paideia was founded upon the literary classics. School-boys did not merely read them, they studied them with the utmost intensity, they s Continue Reading →
