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Great Texts Program, Honors College, Baylor University
Waco, Texas
Joined November 2013
RT @TheGreatB00ks: The great books will change your life. And the Iliad is the first great book. If you haven't read it, make a goal for 2….
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Don’t miss the excellent essay on Boethius from our colleague @SJ_Murray in @CTmagazine. Well done, Dr. Murray!.
Which classic book did C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape fear most? Boethius’s Consolation has been neglected by modern readers for decades. It’s time for a revival. I hope you enjoy this piece I wrote about him and Lewis for Christianity Today (@CTmagazine):
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It’s Another Brave New World. Don’t miss this excellent essay from our Baylor Honors College colleague Darin Davis!
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Are you lost in a dark wood?. Thanks to @SJ_Murray and @greatsstorylab . @Dante_Aligheri @100DaysofDante.
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RT @SJ_Murray: What is creativity? In today’s #GreatThought, Tolkien reminds us that our creativity comes not from ourselves, but is instea….
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Happy Juneteenth!. #OTD in the history of great texts, Blaise Pascal (1623) and Salman Rushdie (1947) were born, and J.M. Barrie (1937) and William Golding (1993) died.
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OTD, James Weldon Johnson (1871) and Jürgen Habermas (1929) were born, and Thomas Kuhn (1996) died.
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OTD in 1313, Giovanni Boccaccio, author of The Decameron and one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian literature (with Dante and Petrarch), was born.
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OTD in 1716, Alexander Pope published the first volume of his translation of the Iliad. The esteemed classical scholar Richard Bentley said, “It is a very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.”. Pope would get his revenge in The Dunciad.
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Happy #Bloomsday! . OTD in 1904 James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle and later commemorated it as the day his character Leopold Bloom wandered throughout Dublin in the 1922 novel *Ulysses*.
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RT @prof_tom_ward: Boethius died 1500 years ago this October. His Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read books in Europe….
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RT @zenahitz: Common mistake: People think that the great books are packed with familiar cliches, whereas the great books are always start….
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On this day in the history of great texts, Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), and Orhan Pamuk (1952) were born, and Friedrich Hölderlin (1843) and E.M. Forster (1970) died.
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Congratulations to our colleague @prof_tom_ward on this important new translation and commentary! We look forward to reading it. Well done!.
Some scotch to celebrate the release of my Scotus translation and commentary. Scotus deserves a widely recognized place among the greatest natural theologians. I hope this book boosts his reputation. Hardest professional thing I’ve ever done. Cheers!
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RT @AdrianTudorDr: This is splendid! How did medieval Christians make the works of pre-Christian, pagan writers ("the ancients") into Chr….
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What a great thread.
Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader! . A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇
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RT @SJ_Murray: What is the Medieval French Ovide? Well, we spent a decade translating it, because we believe it's a "lost book" that change….
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