Session 1: Homeric Psychology and Learned Helplessness Session 2: Odysseus’ Tales and Narrative Therapy Session 3: Homecoming, Group Psychology, and Civil Strife
A three-session course sponsored by the 92nd Street Y : "The Homeric Odyssey and the Human Mind" roundtable.org/live-courses...
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"It is indeed clear that a man who breaks laws is unjust but so is someone who is greedy and inegalitarian—thus it is clear that the just man will be law-abiding and fair. Justice, then, is lawful and fair; injustice is unlawful and unfair." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/30/i...
Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 46 “This is the greatest sign of all, jurors, by which you will know that this man is an unjust and selfish person.” ὃ δὲ πάντων μέγιστόν ἐστιν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί,…
“This is the greatest sign of all, jurors, by which you will know that this man is an unjust and selfish person.” ὃ δὲ πάντων μέγιστόν ἐστιν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ᾧ καὶ γνώσεσθε ταυτονὶ ὅτι ἄδικός ἐστιν καὶ πλεονέκτης ἄνθρωπος· sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/30/i...
Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 46 “This is the greatest sign of all, jurors, by which you will know that this man is an unjust and selfish person.” ὃ δὲ πάντων μέγιστόν ἐστιν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί,…
“There are some people who get puffed up if they manage to talk about something tolerably.. Men have also grown old claiming that it is impossible to say or disprove a lie or to speak two ways about the same matters." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/29/t...
Isocrates, Helen 1-3 “There are some people who get puffed up if they manage to talk about something tolerably after they have themselves selected a strange and impossible subject. Men have a…
Dude should have just called it "Son of the Tipping Point: and left it
My list of things to read is far too long (sabbatical is coming!) but I can’t wait to dig into the splendid Annalisa Marzano’s: _ Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome_ The chapter on “botanical imperialism”? Looks fab. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Cambridge Core - Classical Archaeology - Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome
"Where shall I complain, whom shall I address, Senators, to tell that the Republic is being divided up as booty for any kind of daring pirate?" sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/28/a...
IPseudo-Sallust, Against Cicero “I would have a hard time enduring your attacks with a level mind, Marcus Tullius, if I believed that this petulance of yours came from good judgment rather than a s…
"Good people, Kyrnos, have never yet destroyed a city, But whenever it pleases wicked men to commit outrage, They corrupt the people and issue legal judgment in favor of the unjust, For the sake of their own private profit and power." sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/27/l...
Theognis, Elegies 39–52 “Kyrnos, this city is pregnant and I am afraid she will bear a man Meant to correct our evil arrogance. The citizens are still sane, but the leaders have changed And have fa…
"When these deeds are dear to evil men, their profit accrues with public harm. Civil conflicts and murder of kin comes from this, And tyrants do too: may this never pleasure to our state.” sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/09/27/l...
Theognis, Elegies 39–52 “Kyrnos, this city is pregnant and I am afraid she will bear a man Meant to correct our evil arrogance. The citizens are still sane, but the leaders have changed And have fa…