Book Review: The Histories by Herodotus
“They are free – yes – but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you.”
– The Histories VII. 104.
Tag: books
Book Review: The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso
“Godfrey, behold the day of battle is at hand…Wherefore delay to free captive Jerusalem?”
– The Liberation of Jerusalem I. 16.
Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part II)
“The veritable legislator among the ancients was not a man, but the religious belief which men entertained.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
– Odyssey IX. 33-36
Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Book Review: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
Book Review: Piers Plowman by William Langland
“He’s as meek as a lamb and the words he utters are kind. If you want to know where he lives, I’m more than willing to show you the way.”
– Piers Plowman, Passus V.
Book Review: Phèdre by Jean Racine
“Against my will my eyes / Fill up with tears.”
– Phèdre I. iii.
Book Review: Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1