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One can learn that Homer didn’t do a credible job of Penelope—Odysseus’ wife.

Who knew Dido was so rich? Is this the same Dido who couldn’t live without her boyfriend and killed herself on a funeral pyre?

Very interesting! Who knew Dido owned property? The same girl who couldn’t go on in life without her boyfriend and burned herself on a pyre?

Cicero applied to Pompeii for help, but no going. Claudius burned Cicero’s farm and house down.

Cicero was so smart that his friends told their fathers. The fathers came to the school to see this great and outstanding student.

Crassus enveloped in a cloak and bent over crying because the head of his son was on a pike held up by his enemy.

Crassus’ army made sure that no Parthenon arrow.

Crassus had two great faults: covetousness, self-serving

What a delightfully well-researched book—Plato , William James, René Descartes, Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan and Merzenich’s monkeys——are all here.

Just found an audiobook copy on Chirp for a couple of dollars.

Why the Renaissance began in Italy

* Prosperous city-states such as Florence, Venice, and Milan became wealthy through trade and banking.
* Wealthy families, especially the Medici family, sponsored artists, architects, and scholars.
* Italy was surrounded by the remains of the Roman Empire, inspiring admiration for classical civilization.

Discusses the future of the glory of Virgil.

Pages and Christian art were mixed.


On the threshold of the Reformation, a new question? Can an artist also be a Christian?

I went to London Bridge. A complete block ravished (1941 WWII). “All the bricks of buildings now white powder on the ground .”

Katherine Mansfield stopped by a criticized my latest, but did say, “still, there is something there.”

VW stated, “I’m not going to read Dante!”

I’ve never written anything good since “The Waves.”

“What can a gnat do on a blade of grass?” A sad, but extremely satisfying description.

Major themes

* Revenge versus justice: Pierre Adet is a tragic figure. His hatred grows from genuine oppression, but his quest for vengeance ultimately corrupts him.
* The moral cost of revolution: Orczy portrays the French Revolution as beginning with legitimate grievances but descending into indiscriminate violence during the Terror.

Having just finished “A Letter to a Young Poet,” I can now take a moment.

“But this light depression, what is it?” Entry into VW’s diary.

No divine form—stars?

Plato asserts that all the mind is God.

Memorable Ideas

It complements Cicero’s On Living and Dying Well (On Old Age) by shifting the focus from aging and mortality to the moral obligations of daily life. Together, they offer a compelling vision: live honorably, serve others faithfully, and face old age and death with a clear conscience

Weighing the effect of listening to self-centered thoughts—underlined by self-aggrandizement stories, and comparing that with the
outcome of knowing Virginia Woof on a much deeper level.