Category: The Ancients
Wisdom Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us: Pagan Dreams of the King of Kings
Of Plato’s most ambitious dialogue, the Republic, Christian scholar John Mark Reynolds writes, “In...
Excerpt from Strength in Weakness: Myth Reimagined
Epigraph Theseus, Great and Mighty! Can you hear it in your sleep? As you rest in foolish pride,...
Review: After Humanity
Michael Ward. After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Academic, 2021. 243 pp. Initial Impressions A review is a form of response, and if we are to respond to Michael Ward’s...
Persephone
The Greeks told the story of Demeter and Persephone as a way of understanding the cycle of the...
Till They Have Faces: Lewis’s Psyche Meets the Modern Helen of Troy and Circe
I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug...
The Imaginative Strategy of Boethius
Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, though less well known today, was extremely...
Nicomachean Ethics and the Enemy Within
In his The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that right knowledge, right character, and right...
Drinking from the Well of the Past: A Reflection on the Role of History in Literature & Philosophy for the Modern World
Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? Bottomless indeed, if —...
A Galatian Marriage / Nasoni
A Galatian Marriage Discouraged with the impiety of feminine nature, the artist Pygmalion sculpts...
Listening to the Past
In his work The Lost World of Genesis One, Old Testament scholar John Walton gets his reader in a...
The Chain-Breaker in Plato’s Allegory
In a story so ingrained in Western culture that it has become like a dead metaphor, Plato’s...
Vengeance Is Mine, Saith Everyone
Though the theme of ‘vengeance’ is clearly everywhere in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, it is hard to know...
Sede Vacante
In ‘Sede Vacante’, the author combines stories from the Greek myths with a corresponding mythical...
The Return of the Kings: Comparing the Homecoming of Odysseus and the Two Comings of Christ
After twenty years of suffering and wandering, Odysseus finally returns to his home country of...
O Honor, Where Art Thou?: A Modern Day Odyssey
At first glance, bluegrass music and southern, Depression-era culture seem to be a world apart...
In Defense of Hospitality and Storytelling
As an English professor and public speaker, I am afforded many opportunities to guide students of...
Ancients of Old
So many times, we are pushed to look at contemporary work because it’s new and innovative. Yet, we...
Worth Reading: The Ancients
Worth Reading is An Unexpected Journal’s book recommendations column. Each issue we highlight a...
