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Odysseus and Aeneas: Ancient Ideals of Heroism

by Andrew Aulner, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom A quote attributed to Steve Jobs says, “You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.” The ancient Greeks and Romans were certainly no different. In antiquity, poetry was considered one of the highest forms of cultural expressions, and no heroes are

Written on April 14, 2022 at 2:39 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Heroes

Tags: Aeneas, Heroes, Homer, Odysseus, Virgil

Dante’s Ulysses and Poetic Presumption

by Justin D. Lyons, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy (completed in 1320) is full of allusions. As readers travel the road through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, they are everywhere confronted with names and stories stretching back to classical mythology. The classicist will find a great many familiar characters. But one

Written on January 25, 2022 at 11:31 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Dante, Odysseus, The Divine Comedy, Ulysses, Virgil

Is it Good to Know You Know Nothing?

It’s called the Imposter Syndrome and it’s usually touted about by life coaches to reassure the doubtful. For those who are prone to question their abilities, to feel as if they are actually an imposter rather than the expert they are portrayed as, this label can assuage their fears. You are fully capable, they confirm,

Written on January 3, 2022 at 3:02 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: all I know is that I know nothing, dunning-kruger effect, imposter Syndrome, socrates, Virgil

Hunting Dogs in the Ancient World

Written by Robert Gate, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom For millennia, dogs and people have shared a close partnership. No one is still ready to claim when and where the first dog was domesticated, but it is generally accepted that it was for hunting. Thousands of years ago, men did not have big guns to aid

Written on September 2, 2020 at 6:00 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: History

Tags: argos, Artemis, Cerberus, Dogs, Egypt, Greece, Hecate, hercules, Hunting, hunting dogs, King Odysseus, Rome, Virgil

Not Your Virgil’s Sinon: The Greeks and the Man Who Tricked the Trojans

Written by Cynthia C. Polsley, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom And I said to him: ‘Who are those two poor sinners who give off smoke like wet hands in the winter and lie so close to you upon the right?’ ‘I found them here,’ he answered, ‘when I rained down to this rocky slope; they’ve not

Written on July 15, 2020 at 6:48 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Literature

Tags: Aeneid, Dante, Dante's Inferno, Fall of Troy, Homer, Homer's Odyssey, iliad, Odyssey, Quintus, Sinon, Virgil

Four Common(ly misunderstood) Latin Proverbs

The other day a student told me that, during her studies as an art student, she had to sculpt a small statue as an assignment for one of her courses. She did so without having put much thought into it. The professor approached her and started praising her work, giving it much more and much

Written on October 25, 2019 at 10:19 am, by Visnja Bojovic

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Categories: Language

Tags: Aeneid, juvenal, latin, proverbs, Publius Terentius Afer, Seneca, Terence, Virgil

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