Showing posts with label Ancient Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient Greece. Show all posts
Sunday, August 24, 2025

In defense of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

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“In the most pure democracies of Greece , many of the executive functions were performed, not by the people themselves, but by officers elec...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

A review of Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”

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“The best writings of antiquity upon government those I mean of Aristotle , Zeno and Cicero are lost. We have human nature, society, and un...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Trojan War”

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“The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war : they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Monday, June 10, 2024

How the Greeks and Romans influenced the Founding Fathers

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Note: This blog post quotes from some historical documents, which contain words that would now be considered offensive. These words are only...
Monday, April 24, 2023

A review of “Great Epochs of European Art: Art of the Ancient Greeks & Romans”

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The difficulties of learning about Greek and Roman art from textbooks For many years now, I’ve been interested in Ancient Greece and Rome . ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

A few problems with Plato’s “Republic” (and his ideal state)

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“You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work , especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is t...
Monday, January 3, 2022

A review of “Stoics and Epicureans” (audiobook)

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There’s a brief mention of the Epicureans and Stoics in the New Testament . Specifically, in “The Acts of the Apostles,” it is said that “c...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Some thoughts about classical education

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“[Chaerephon] went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him … whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess ans...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

A review of Bettany Hughes’ “The Spartans”

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“Athens became the seat of politeness and taste, the country of orators and philosophers. The elegance of its buildings equalled that of i...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

A review of “Athens: The Dawn of Democracy”

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“Sparta, Athens , Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind. Yet were they as often...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Some thoughts about philosophy education

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“[I] am a sort of gadfly , given to the state by the god; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to hi...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Where do I find Latin and Greek works in the original?

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You might try the Loeb Classical Library , described at Wikipedia here and found at this website here . (The rest of this post is about h...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

A review of “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” (PBS Empires)

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"Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the nece...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Falling in love with Classics: How I rediscovered Ancient Greece and Rome

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"Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans , and of the Stoicks , encountered him [Paul]. And some said, What will this babbler say...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Reflections on learning about history of Ancient Greece

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"The history of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a count...