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The great books will change your life.
And the Iliad is the first great book.
If you haven't read it, make a goal for 2025 to do so.
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Great Texts Program, Honors College, Baylor University
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Don’t miss the excellent essay on Boethius from our colleague @SJ_Murray in @CTmagazine. Well done, Dr. Murray!
Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray@SJ_Murray
Which classic book did C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape fear most? Boethius’s Consolation has been neglected by modern readers for decades. It’s time for a revival. I hope you enjoy this piece I wrote about him and Lewis for Christianity Today (@CTmagazine): christianitytoday.com/2024/12/book-s… #CSLewis #TheBoethiusProject
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It’s Another Brave New World
Don’t miss this excellent essay from our Baylor Honors College colleague Darin Davis! currentpub.com/2024/11/13/its…
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Are you lost in a dark wood?
m.youtube.com/shorts/T6K1D6a…
Thanks to @SJ_Murray and @greatsstorylab
@Dante_Aligheri @100DaysofDante
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What is creativity? In today’s #GreatThought, Tolkien reminds us that our creativity comes not from ourselves, but is instead an invitation to step into our roles as “sub-creators.”
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Happy Juneteenth!
#OTD in the history of great texts, Blaise Pascal (1623) and Salman Rushdie (1947) were born, and J.M. Barrie (1937) and William Golding (1993) died.
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OTD, James Weldon Johnson (1871) and Jürgen Habermas (1929) were born, and Thomas Kuhn (1996) died.
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OTD in 1313, Giovanni Boccaccio, author of The Decameron and one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian literature (with Dante and Petrarch), was born.
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OTD in 1716, Alexander Pope published the first volume of his translation of the Iliad.
The esteemed classical scholar Richard Bentley said, “It is a very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.”
Pope would get his revenge in The Dunciad.
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Happy #Bloomsday!
OTD in 1904 James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle and later commemorated it as the day his character Leopold Bloom wandered throughout Dublin in the 1922 novel *Ulysses*
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Boethius died 1500 years ago this October. His Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read books in Europe for over a thousand years. If you’ve never read it, make this the year you do!
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On this day in the history of great texts, Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), and Orhan Pamuk (1952) were born, and Friedrich Hölderlin (1843) and E.M. Forster (1970) died.
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Congratulations to our colleague @prof_tom_ward on this important new translation and commentary! We look forward to reading it. Well done!
Thomas M. Ward@prof_tom_ward
Some scotch to celebrate the release of my Scotus translation and commentary. Scotus deserves a widely recognized place among the greatest natural theologians. I hope this book boosts his reputation. Hardest professional thing I’ve ever done. Cheers!
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This is splendid! How did medieval Christians make the works of pre-Christian, pagan writers ("the ancients") into Christian teachings? How could pagans like Aristotle & Ovid write Christian truths? @SJ_Murray and a team at @Baylor explain in a terrific short film...
Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray@SJ_Murray
When we began translating the medieval French Ovide Moralisé, we learned a lot from the medieval writer about why translations and adaptations matter. Watch "Why Moralize Ovid?" to find out more about the tone-setting General Prologue to this long-lost book, contemporary to Dante's Divine Comedy in France. @greatsstorylab
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What is the Medieval French Ovide? Well, we spent a decade translating it, because we believe it's a "lost book" that changed and shaped the world. Quite possibly, you might think of it as the Divine Comedy of France. Now, learn about how it all began -- and then dig into the translation from @boydellbrewer. With thanks to our editor, @CanaryCaroline :)
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