Tag: classics
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Review: Aurelius’s Meditations
Meditations: A New Translation Marcus Aurelius (trans. Hays) This is most people’s introductions to the philosophy of Stoicism — it was certainly mine. This is* the private writings of the emperor Aurelius, written in Greek, and intended as, perhaps, a set of private exhortations to himself to be better. It is comprised of a series…
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100 Days of Milo: Day 17 — Classics
The homepage of sorts for my various interests in the classics is here. On this page, you’ll find a guide to my own writing on classics (including the occasional stoic series, and the amateur classicists series). You’ll also find links to the web pages I often visit for my own edification. Fun for the whole…
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100 Days of Milo — Amateur Classicists
This week in 100 days of Milo I’m going to feature some posts and pages about one of my non-sport related interests – classical history and thought. Here’s a page collecting my “amateur classicist” posts about average people who found time to study the classical world.
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Review: Beard’s Confronting the Classics
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Mary Beard This is a collection of Beard’s reviews and essays from a number of publications, including many from the New York Review of Books. Organized in rough chronological order from Greece to the present, it is a bit of a hodgepodge. But what a wonderful hodgepodge it…
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Review: Epictetus’s Enchiridon and Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists only in quotation…
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Ann Yearsley – Poet, Mother, Abolitionist, Classicist
Ann Yearsley was an 18th century milk woman, farmer’s wife and the mother of six children. She was also a poet, an auto-didactic classicists, and a fierce abolitionist. She was, in other words, completely amazing. Yearley was born in a poor family in the Bristol and taught to read and write by her parents. While…
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The Books I Read in 2012
Attention conservation notice: this post is long and has nothing to do with working out. I have kept a list of every book I have read I have read since I was thirteen years old. Yeah, obsessive record keeping didn’t start with my running log. Below is a list of every book I read this…
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Review: Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus (trans. Robert Dobbin) (Penguin) Epictetus. Freed slave, logician, and stoic, is one of the many classical writers more often referenced than read. Epictetus’s name is bandied frequently when the subject of stoicism comes up. His writings were extremely influential on Marcus Aurealius (some of the writing attributed to Epictetus exists…
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Review: Everitt’s Cicero
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician Anthony Everitt Odds are, you have heard of Cicero. Considered one of Rome’s greatest orators, his writings are the major influence on how way we remember the last days of the Roman republic. The story of Cicero’s life is the story of end of last years…
Milo and the Calf 