Of Farming and Classics I started reading this book 6 weeks or so ago, but haven’t picked it up for a few weeks. The review is by Edith Hall. A teaser:Most classical scholars Continue Reading →
Symbolic Restitution I was intrigued by the following passage in Walter Burkert’s Greek Religion:The finds from the Neolithic town of Çatal Hüyük now make it almost imo Continue Reading →
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish’s short Ars Poetica ends with the rather famous following two lines: A poem should not meanBut be.These lines are quoted fairly fre Continue Reading →