Texts in Context: The Triumph of Hellas
The preposterous victory of the Greeks over the Persians is, in a sense, the beginning of a self-consciously Western civilization.
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Student Essay: Achilles Atropos
Typical analyses see the turning point of Achilles’ character in his re-entry to the war. But does his character really change?
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Texts in Context: The Age of the Tyrants
Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context: A Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Texts in Context:A Rosy-Fingered Dawn By Gabriel Blanchard The Dark Age of the post-Bronze-Age Ægean is obscure to historians, but what happened next is far less so …
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Texts in Context: Darkness on the Mountains
Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Texts in Context: Irons in the Fire
The stage is now set for the Early Iron Age, much of which could be likened to a statue with a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly …
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Context Is King
The problem with fallacies like cherry-picking is that every word, sentence, book, and thought is meaningful only within its context.
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Texts in Context: Now We’re Getting Somewhen
Strange shapes move half-visibly in the mists of time; but as the grey recedes, often as not, we seem to find not a window but a mirror.
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G. K. Chesterton: An Author Profile
A romantic English patriot and devout Catholic convert; a friend of Shaw and Orwell and an enemy of modernity; an opponent of socialism and a staunch foe of capitalism: the paradoxes of Chesterton make an elegant closing flourish for our series on the Author Bank.
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Shakespeare: An Author Profile
Shakespeare’s genius is shown not only in his contributions to language itself, but in his power of presenting the emotional and spiritual fractal web of human life on the stage.
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