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From Plato, There Is No Escape

30 December 202030 December 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

Socrates did, in fact, cancel Homer first. Except not. It's complicated.

Sallust: On the Gods and the Worlds V

18 March 2019 ~ kaye ~ 1 Comment

V. Concerning the first Cause. After this, it is requisite that we should know the first cause, and the orders of gods posterior to the first, together with the nature of the world, of intellect, soul, and essence; likewise that we should speculate providence, fate, and fortune, virtue and vice, and the good and evil … Continue reading Sallust: On the Gods and the Worlds V

Sallust, Part II: Remixing ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD XV

Pythia and tripod from a Greek vase. Wikimedia commons.
15 March 2019 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

XV. Why we honour the Gods, who are not indigent of any thing. From hence we are presented with a solution of the doubts concerning sacrifices and other particulars relative to the cultivation of divinity; for that which is divine is not indigent of any thing. But the honours which we pay to the gods, … Continue reading Sallust, Part II: Remixing ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD XV

How Sallust Made Me a Hellenist

Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
15 March 201930 June 2020 ~ kaye ~ 1 Comment

When I wrote my last post, I wanted to link to something, but realized that it was on my old blog. It was a remix of On the Gods and the World by Sallust in which I took the open access version of the text and combined it with free-to-use images from the Wikimedia Commons … Continue reading How Sallust Made Me a Hellenist

The Natural World, the Gods, and Ethics

10 September 2017 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

I thought hard this morning about what my response has been to prior natural disasters, so I went back to the Old KALLISTI to see what I said there. The words I wrote in 2010 — so long ago now — don't completely match my current worldview. For Pagan Values Month (June 2010), I wrote … Continue reading The Natural World, the Gods, and Ethics

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