Links to the Past

Search for the real Troy link

Make Athens Great Again link

Ancient Olympian Record broken link

What Enlightenment Philosophers Would Have Thought of Trump link

Athenian Park (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Vatican digitizes a 1600 year old manuscript of the Aeneid link

Why China's love affair with Shakespeare endures link

The man who invented fiction: What we owe to Cervantes link

Where we get Hercules 12 labors from link

Zeno and Zeno (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Shakespeare's politics and his sonnets link

Reddit thread: What's the most intellectual joke you know link

Reflections on Athenian democracy from today's Britain link

Early encounters with Shakespeare link

Intellectual Value of Modern Philosophy link

Socratesman (Existential Comics) link 

Links to the Past

10 Interesting Myths About Shakespeare link

Plato and Aristotle on 'Brexit vs Bremain' (note, I have no opinion on the underlying politics, but I like the exercise of using the big guns to think through it)  link

In defense of reading dead white guys link

Thomas Hobbes and Captain America 'Civil War' link

The Most Beautiful Poems in the English Language link

The French Play Monopoly (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Reading All of Shakespeare's Plays on the Tube link

Reviving the spoken Aeneid link

Heaney's Virgil is our Virgil link

Philosophically Curious George (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Science Shows How Moby Dick could have Sunk a Ship link

Shakespeare still Teaching us About Good and Evil link

Is it fair for Shakespeare to overshadow Cervantes? link

Flow Chart to Help Determine Which Shakespeare to See link

Reactions to the women in Shakespeare, from Actresses link

Ancient Greek Office (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Filling the Gaps: Expanding the Philosophical Canon link

Shakespeare and Cervantes Wrote the Modern Literary Rulebook link

Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers link

Vatican to host conference on Just War Theory link

Philosophers Playing Dungeons and Dragons VI (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Why we should praise the works of translators link

Shakespeare's skull, probably stolen link

Epictetus and the pursuit of happiness link

Why We Should All Learn from the Classics link

Is the Bible More like Plato or Copernicus? link

Dungeons and Dragons with Philosophers (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Othello on trial link

What a Liberal Education in the 21st Century should mean link

Webchat on translating the Iliad link

Rebel Without a Constant Conjunction (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Shakespeare's Bad(Ass) Quarto link

Lawyers Love Shakespeare link

The Persistence of Odysseus in fiction link

How Umberto Eco Helped Redeem Post-Modernism link

The Lost Wisdom of the Three Wise Men link

Captain Metaphysics and the Ship of Theseus (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Most Assigned Books for US Colleges link

Philosophical questions of 'Groundhog Day' link

Top 10 Shakespearean Movie Adaptations link

Exploring the continuing appeal of the Odyssey link

What Would Descartes have thought of Anesthesia?  link

CSI: Athens (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

The Great Forgetting of the West's Cultural Heritage link

Suggestions for 'deep reading' the classics link

Why is Shakespeare still relevant?  link

Game lets you lead a mob against the Greek Gods link

Philosophy and the City (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Revenge of the Greats link

Stoicism for the Modern Day link

Map of locations in the Odyssey link

How Christianity Advanced Science link

The World's Largest 'Shakespeare 400' celebration link

Snakes and Ladders and the Nature of Virtue (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Humanities is Booming link



Moby Dick explained while on a roller-coaster link



'The Raven' with wonderful Gustave Dore illustrations link



Thoughts on Kipling's 'If' link


A Visit from St Marx (Existential Comics) link 
(Warning, this one is very dark.)


Merry Christmas, everyone!

Links to the Past

How London Geography Inspired 'Moby Dick' link

A 'White Whale' discovered deep in the Smithsonian link

Aristotle Understood Life Better Than You Think link

Performing Prisoners Re-Imagining of Dante link

The Coming Shakespeare Extravaganza link

Sisyphus, Adjusting to Normal Life (Existintial Comics) link

Links to the Past

In Defense of the Lecture (especially in Humanities) link

Marcus Aurelius from a Modern perspective link

What Shakespeare can Teach us about the Simpsons link

A Very Spooky Philosophical Halloween (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

What Happened to French Thought - link

Does Literature Beef up Your Mind? link

Why Conservatives should Read Dostoevsky link

Recreation of Archimedes Sphere link

Rap Version of the Iliad? link

The Apology (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Is the Earth really round? link

Denouncing the Classics link

Father of History link

Harry Potter and ... (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

Plato's Cave, animated link

In praise of shorter Great Books link

Taylor Swift Socratic Dialogue link

Translating 'Wimpy Kid' into Latin link 

What is a sandwich?   A Platonic approach link

Star Trek: but instead of normal, it's with philosophers (Existential Comics) link

Links to the Past

(Can't believe how long it's been since I've done a 'links' post.  Sorry!)

Best of the Scribblers (In praise of Gibbon) link

Marathon Reading of 'Moby Dick' link

10 Reasons You should be reading the Classics link

Hypatia of Alexandra and the Seven Pre-Socratics (Existential Comics) link