Augustine’s The City of God, Part 2
The first 10 books of The City of God was a polemic against Roman polytheistic religion. As we saw last week, Augustine…
Continue Reading →The first 10 books of The City of God was a polemic against Roman polytheistic religion. As we saw last week, Augustine…
Continue Reading →It’s been a very difficult and crazily busy last three weeks since I posted, but I managed to at least…
Continue Reading →It’s over a month since I began the new commitment to a 5-year plan in reading the Great Books. I have since…
Continue Reading →I went back to Augustine this week, starting with his shorter work, On Christian Doctrine (OCD), which is less than 150 pages,…
Continue Reading →This last week I’ve finally finished reading the last three plays of Sophocles out of the seven which survive today…
Continue Reading →We continue off from the review of the first, and most famous play of the Oedipus trilogy, Oedipus the King. The…
Continue Reading →Oedipus is famous in Western culture as a character who infamously killed his father and married his mother by mistake.…
Continue Reading →Having finished reading all of the Aeschylus plays in GBWW Volume 4, I decided to proceed with the two Electra plays by…
Continue Reading →I managed to finish reading the four remaining plays by Aeschylus in Volume 4 of GBWW this weekend. As I…
Continue Reading →I managed to resume my reading of the rest of the Oresteia trilogy this week after previously having read and wrote about Agamemnon,…
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