Our Electronic “Life”

by Micah Harris

The internet has undercut the market for real-world experience. While the price of experience has held steady—or nearly so—the internet has drastically reduced the price of information. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2016

Critic at the Agon

by Peter J. Leithart

Literary criticism began as “praise” or “blame.” Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2016

On Classical Metaphor

by Peter J. Leithart

Did the ancients understand metaphor as an adornment of the literal? Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2016

Supplication

by Peter J. Leithart

Ancient suppliants didn't automatically win the favor of their supplicandi. Continue Reading »

5 Aug 2015

Athenian Manufacturing

by Peter J. Leithart

Ancient Athens was a prosperous city because it was a productive city. Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2015

Allegorizing Homer

by Peter J. Leithart

In allegorizing ancient myths, medievals were following ancient pagan models. Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2015

Greece in the English Renaissance

by Peter J. Leithart

Renaissance Humanists gave Greek “mouth honor,” but not much else. Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2015

Sacramentum et Imperator

by Peter J. Leithart

Sacramentum was originally a military and imperial term. It still is. Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2015

Ancients on the Ancients

by Peter J. Leithart

What did Greeks and Romans know about the Ancient Near East? Not much. Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2015

William Giraldi and Civilization’s Unraveling

by J.L. Wall

William Giraldi’s Hold the Dark, its jacket copy proclaims, is “an Alaskan Oresteia.” The comparison is perfectly calibrated to grab and hold this failed Classicist’s attention, and I found myself puzzling over it as I read. Soldiers come home from war, Continue Reading »

17 Nov 2014