West on Passages of Disputed Authenticity In M.L. West’s commentary on the Theogony, he remarks in his introduction to the Typhoeus passage (820-80) that it is ‘one of the sections of the Theo Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →