Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is author, most recently, of Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor).
Classics is no longer seen as a cutting-edge discipline, but two centuries ago German scholars devoted to the “cult of the Greeks” created the modern university when they developed new methods in philology and installed Altertumswissenschaft, the science of antiquity, at the center of the curriculum Continue Reading »
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Did Herodotus lie about the Egyptian origins of Greek religion? Continue Reading »
Alexander was inspired by his putative descent from Achilles, also by his association with the Egyptian god Osiris. Continue Reading »
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Yahweh’s eyes and heart are toward the temple. But what is His temple? Continue Reading »
Jerusalem and the temple fill with the sounds of Yahweh paying wages. Continue Reading »
Piet Mondrian’s paintings reflect a hostility to nature in favor of an ideal world where mathematics and beauty kiss each other. Continue Reading »
A new book traces the sources of Edmund Spenser’s style. Continue Reading »
Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling heroes might have been his father. Continue Reading »
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