From the preface to Edwin N. Brown's 1894  Treasury of Latin Gems : In the arrangement of the ordinary course in Latin, the first fo...

You know an academic just finished a book and is ready to start hocking it when they start publishing a lot of fun, fluffy articles that pe...

One of the most striking modern positions is the reluctance to consider the concepts of freedom and slavery from other than political premi...

This list of Latin and Greek rhetorical devices was born slowly and out of frustration with existing reference materials, which failed st...

In the last decades before the birth of Christ, as the Roman people learned to embrace the yoke of an ostensibly reluctant autocrat, the hi...

Thank You For Arguing. by Jay Heinrichs. Ch. 26 I don't know quite what to say about a chapter which begins with a leading quote t...

The philosophy of Aristotle lacks little, but a gaping omission is a human face. There is no smart aleck Socrates with whom we may laugh an...

Teaching Latin literature courses always runs into several conundrums. Chief among these, perhaps, is whether the course will be structured...

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. –F. Chopin Most minds re...

An old adage instructs writers to accept the criticism that something is wrong in their work, but reject recommendations to fix it. Another...

Welcome to Part Six of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previous en...

The latest speech from the 21st century Cicero has arrived and it's a doozy . How long and boring and tedious it is! It's all ove...

Daphnis ego in silvis hinc usque ad sidera notus formonsi pecoris formonsior ipse. –Vergil. Eclogue VI. 43-44 The connection between ma...

Some attain immortality by doing great deeds, others by getting swept up in the affairs of great men. It's unlikely we would remember a...