Against Chivalry

The ancient Greek accounts of the creation differ greatly from the one in the Bible. In his Theogony, Hesiod produces a polytheistic account of the origin of the world. Lecture

Milton’s Paradise Lost as an attempt to synthesize the Biblical and classical accounts of the Creation. Lecture

They had more in common than just the sheer greatness of their literary achievements. Cervantes did not know Shakespeare's work, but Shakespeare almost certainly knew Cervantes's most famous work, Don Quixote. Essay

It is only by reading Dante noncanonically that we become aware of the full richness and complexity of his thought, especially the way he is open to countercurrents of ideas within the supposedly rigid orthodoxy of the Middle Ages. Essay

Today the radicals are the real conservatives, contributing to the perpetuation of our dumbed-down media culture, while the conservatives are the real radicals, offering the great classics of the Western tradition as the most effective means of liberating students from the orthodoxies of our day. Book Review

Epic decisions shape cultures. Why does Milton have the Christian epic decision be one that rejects God? Essay