Articles tagged Homer
Finding the Right Words for Christmas
It has been a cold December day and I am sitting inside wishing for a fire to warm my hands. A pot of chicken broth is bubbling on the stove. Tonight, as I chopped vegetables and threw handfuls of herbs into the pot, I thought about the flavorful liquid that comes from...
How the Bible Taught Me to Study
by Matt
Thursday, 08 August, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
Thursday, 08 August, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘wisdom’? Do we want our children to grow up in wisdom? Do we want them to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, even if that means they will be wiser than we are? I hope the answer to these questions is yes.
My son felt...
A Response to President Obama’s New Common Core State Standards for Education
In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles refuses to accept gifts from the hand of Agamemnon precisely because he refuses to become “the king’s man." Agamemnon had wronged Achilles—grievously—and to receive his gifts would amount to admitting that it was within Agamemnon’s authority...
Mentoring Programs: Discipleship and Leadership
by Jennifer
Monday, 15 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 15 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
What is a mentor, anyway? In Homer’s Odyssey, Mentor is a wise older friend of Odysseus who advises his son Telemachus. Ten years after the Trojan War ends, Odysseus has still not found his way home to Ithaka. The men of the island try to convince his wife,...
Only the Lover Sings
by Andrew
Friday, 12 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Friday, 12 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
When I read my beloved Odyssey, which I seem, finally, to have learned how to read on its own terms, I find myself filled with admiration at the almost miraculous creativity of Homer and Odysseus, of Athene and Demodokos and Hephaistos, and (maybe my favorite) of...