The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
- An engraving of the death of Astyanax I'm still reading The Last of the Wine and I've come to the part where the main character, who is a student of Socrates, meets another student - Phaedo. I'd read the Phaedo, one of Plato's dialogues about the death of Socrates and his discussion with some friends about the immortality of the soul, as told through his student Phaedo, but I'd never learned anything about Phaedo himself. The Last of the Wine writes Phaedo as an inhabitant of the island of read
I know how to win a war grad school was good for something! (hehe maybe!) The man who seeks to be the next commander-in-chief of the United States said this today. I found myself immediately cynical and disbelieving- after all, as General Wes Clark said, being held captive in a North Vietnamese prison camp (while harrowing and a horror that knows many names- Hanoi Hilton, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, etc., it is something that I would not wish on anyone. ) is not a qualification to become com read
The New Criterion recently published a thoughtful article on the decline of classical learning and the core liberal arts curriculum in the university. For those who would like to understand the "dumbing down" of our elementary and secondary schools and the coarsening of our culture, this article probes the root causes. Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War read
Advanced Agon: Three Flavors of Myth July 12th, 2008 in game design | No Comments » I admit it: when I’m running Agon I’m a stickler for Classical Greek style. I don’t just want D&D with spears or a fuzzy Xena-barbarian analog, I want it to feel like mythic Greece. Hubris, arrogance, tragedy — the works. That’s a great thing about Agon: the built-in mechanics pack a lot of Greek punch. But not all Classical texts are the same. There’s one thing that varies a lot, and that’s the over read
World Made by Hand is a beautifully written novel about a very difficult time, post-Peak Oil. Some books hit you in the gut and force you to think; and this is one of them. You may go where you don’t want to go. But it’s quite a trip. The book begins innocently enough. Two men are fishing in a stream near an old railroad bed. They are talking, enjoying each other’s company. It is “sometime in the not-too-distant future.” And thus does a story unfold over a couple of summer months. The only hin read
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