Classics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:37:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Classics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 A Machine for Every Muse: The Return of Classical Learning in the Age of AI https://brewminate.com/a-machine-for-every-muse-the-return-of-classical-learning-in-the-age-of-ai/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:04:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257543 In ancient Greece, the Muses stood at the gateway of human inspiration. Calliope gave us epic poetry. Clio,

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]]> Augustan Propaganda: Virgil and Idealism in the Aeneid https://brewminate.com/augustan-propaganda-virgil-and-idealism-in-the-aeneid/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:29:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=173515 Written under the patronage of the first emperor of Rome, Virgil’s ‘Aenied’ can be understood as political propaganda.

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]]> Ancient Greek Classics on Grief and the Importance of Mourning the Dead https://brewminate.com/ancient-greek-classics-on-grief-and-the-importance-of-mourning-the-dead/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:56:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=136075 Memories of the past were an important guide to the future. This is in part why the funeral

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]]> Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power of Women’s Laments in Ancient Greek Poetry and Tragedy https://brewminate.com/private-speech-public-pain-the-power-of-womens-laments-in-ancient-greek-poetry-and-tragedy/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:34:28 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=74216 The Homeric Multitext, Creative Commons Women’s discourse in Greek society has been traditionally controlled and restricted by strict

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]]> Linguistic Evidence Support for Dating the Homeric Epics https://brewminate.com/linguistic-evidence-support-for-dating-the-homeric-epics/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:32:49 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=73204 Linguistic dating is in close agreement with historians’ and classicists’ beliefs derived from historical and archaeological sources.        By

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]]> Helen of Troy: The Homecoming Queen https://brewminate.com/helen-of-troy-the-homecoming-queen/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:21:53 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=66459 David, The Love of Helen and Paris (detail), Wikimedia Commons Helen’s homecoming was on the surface successful, but there was a

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]]> Abandon All Hope: Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy https://brewminate.com/abandon-all-hope-guide-to-dantes-divine-comedy/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:37:52 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=63281 Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s vision of heaven and hell. Wikimedia

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]]> Guide to the Classics: Sappho, a Poet in Fragments https://brewminate.com/guide-to-the-classics-sappho-a-poet-in-fragments/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:04:23 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=61822 Fresco showing a woman called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii Naples National Archaeological Museum. Wikimedia Commons Sappho sang

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]]> Guide to the Classics: Virgil’s Aeneid https://brewminate.com/guide-to-the-classics-virgils-aeneid/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:33:22 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=61466 Virgil reads the Aeneid to Octavia and Augustus. Angelica Kauffmann/Hermitage/Wikimedia Commons Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a Trojan

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]]> An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad https://brewminate.com/an-introduction-to-homers-iliad/ Sun, 06 May 2018 17:40:08 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=59758 Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and Hera

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