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love/poetry/xenophon

Sappho, “And I said / I shall burn…”; Xenophon, Memorabilia III.11

Posted on October 20, 2018 by ashok / 0 Comment

The willingness to make a sacrifice—And I said / I shall burn—is an attempt to bribe the gods. I assume the fat thigh-bones of a white she-goat would be set afl...

academia/philosophy/politics/xenophon

Xenophon’s Socrates

Posted on December 1, 2017 by ashok / 0 Comment

Remarks that were meant to be delivered December 1st, 2017 by the author at the Gorman Faculty Lounge, University of Dallas. The dissertation defense was succes...

philosophy/plato/politics/xenophon

On Esotericism

Posted on November 9, 2016 by ashok / 0 Comment

John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...

philosophy/politics/xenophon

Xenophon, “Apology of Socrates”

Posted on September 17, 2016 by ashok / 0 Comment

Xenophon, Apology of Socrates for Glen Thurow, whose civility & graciousness I still marvel at, and for Peter Lund, who understands how personal the love of...

philosophy/politics/xenophon

Property and the Pursuit of Happiness: Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.14-23

Posted on March 29, 2014 by ashok

With thanks to Jonathan Culp At times, ancient texts outdo our self-help gurus. Aristotle’s Ethics: “Read this book, be happy!” Plato’s ...

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