Nietzsche and I go to the twilight
Please respond with a faith-filled “I do”.
Do you reject the academy? I do
And all of its works? I do
And all of its empty promises? I do
Excellent then. We can...
Forming Humanity
It is 2020 and humanity is dead. Or perhaps humanity is not dead, but it is lying like an ill-fitting costume in the closet of the 19th century: unused,...
Menelaus in the Archaic Period
Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Menelaus. The first four heroes are recognizable to everyone, but who is Menelaus? Author Anna Stelow has written the first book ever devoted to Menelaus,...
The Unification of Science
As the fourth and final volume in Stephen Gaukroger’s series on the Shaping of Modernity, this book has as its overarching theme the unification of the sciences.
“The argument that...
THE GOD OF ROME
In this very personal look at the Roman god Jupiter, King of the Gods, Baylor University professor Julia Dyson Hejduk has given us in her new book the first...
In Search of the Soul
I have always believed that the easiest place to lose oneself is inside one’s own head; of course, it’s the only place to find one’s self too. Or, at...
Nero, Rome and Fire
A fiery volcano that erupted in Alaska in 43 BCE had a significant event on Rome just a year after Julius Caesar was assassinated.
In research published late June 2020...
Fictions of Certitude
“Quite a long, long time ago, when huge shadows were thrown upon the earth but their sources were unknown and men still wandered in rags upon the earth, there...
World in Danger
Review written by Dr M Emanuele
The average citizen who views the barrage of news each day is usually confronted with one or two major stories or crises at a...
Lucretius and the Language of Nature
This book makes the point that Lucretius was a linguistically creative poet. While author Barnaby Taylor does not draw a comparison between Lucretius (94-55 BCE) and Shakespeare, their ability...