Paideia:Â The Ideals of Greek Culture, Vols. I and II by Werner Jaeger
This is a fascinating book — doubly so because of the time in which it was produced, 1930’s Germany. Jaeger emigrated from the Nazi regime, but it is still chilling to come across such frank use of the notion of “race” to analyze a civilization. […]
I’ve finished my first summer read — Carol Thomas and Craig Conant’s Citadel to City-State: The Transformation of Greece 1200-700 BCE (Indiana U. Press:1999).Â
When trying to figure out what happened to Greece between the collapse of Mycenae and the rise of the polis, the evidence is pretty sketchy. The literary evidence is virtually non-existant (Greece lost […]
As of last night, I finished the first two original volumes of the History, which comprise the first volume of my Penguin hardcover edition. So, I’ve finished 1,083 pages in 34 days of reading. More to the point, I’ve traversed roughly 200 years of Roman imperial history with Gibbon as my wonderful guide! As I […]
Well, I have picked up the pace a little. I’ve now reached p. 465 and have gotten into a groove, of sorts, the last couple of days.Â
In the midst of this, it occured to me what a truly dreary subject matter Gibbon chose to write about.  The book is — as advertised — a close and detailed examination of the slow death […]
I’m afraid to admit it, but after 10 days of reading I finished only about 250 pages of The Decline and Fall. I’m not a fast reader, so that’s not so very awful for me, but it is troubling given that I hope to finish before summer break is over (all the while accomplishing an […]
My first book for this summer (and I do hope I it won’t be the last book I get through before fall!) is Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
 I’m at currently at base camp, so to speak, having just — moments ago — finished with the editor’s introduction — itself an essay of nearly 100 […]
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