
Index (A-Z)
A
- Aeschylus
- The Idea of the Enemy in Aeschylus’s The Persians
- A Brief Note on Aeschylean Tragedy
- The Seven Against Thebes and The Phoenician Women Considered
- A Defense of Nomos in The Suppliants
- Dialectic in Agamemnon
- The Oresteia: An Affirmation of the Noble Lie
- Electra in Aeschylus vs. Euripides
- Thoughts on Aeschylus
- Comparing Clytemnestra and Lady Macbeth
- Notes on Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Agee, James
- Saint Ambrose
- Amis, Kingsley
- Anderson, Kevin J.
- Aristophanes
- Who is Aristophanes?
- Thoughts on Aristophanean Comedy
- Treason in the Acharnians
- Cleon Ridiculed in the Knights
- Socrates Ridiculed in the Clouds
- The Courts Ridiculed in the Wasps
- A Parody of Greek Mythology In The Peace
- Aristophanes’s The Birds: A New City in the Sky
- The War Between the Sexes in Lysistrata
- The Persecution of the Poets in Thesmophoriazusae
- Dionysus’s Descent Into Hades In The Frogs
- The Triumph of Socialism in the Assemblywomen
- The Worship of Wealth in the Plutos
- Aristotle
- On Aristotle’s Four Causes
- Perception in Aristotle’s On The Soul
- Introductory Notes on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
- Reflections On Aristotle’s Prime Unmoved Mover
- Nature in the Nicomachean Ethics
- Thoughts on Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
- The Teaching of Aristotle’s Politics
- Thoughts on Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
- Further Thoughts on Aristotle’s Politics
- Aristotle’s Politics Book I: “Man Is A Political Animal”
- Aristotle’s Politics Book II: Polemics Against The “City In Speech”
- Aristotle’s Politics Book III: The Limits of the City and Citizenship
- Aristotle’s Politics Book IV: Democracy and Oligarchy
- Aristotle’s Politics Book V: Factions and Changes of Government
- Aristotle’s Politics Book VI: On The Endurance of Democracies and Oligarchies
- Aristotle’s Politics Books VII-VIII: The Best City and the Education of its Citizens
- Ethos, Pathos, Logos: On Aristotle’s Rhetoric
- Aristotle on the Passions
- Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Tragedy
- What Is The Teaching of Aristotle’s Poetics?
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Saint Augustine
- Who is Saint Augustine of Hippo?
- Wrestling with Divine Epistemology in Saint Augustine’s Confessions, Book I
- Reflections on St. Augustine’s Moment of Conversion
- Saint Augustine on Time
- History, Providence, and Progress in Saint Augustine’s City of God
- Considering Theodicy in St. Augustine “On the Free Choice of the Will”
B
- Barnes, Margaret Ayer
- Beaumont, Charles
- Short Story Review: “Perchance to Dream” by Charles Beaumont
- Short Story Review: “The Howling Man” by Charles Beaumont
- Short Story Review: “The Jungle” by Charles Beaumont
- Short Story Review: “The Beautiful People” by Charles Beaumont
- Short Story Review: “Song For A Lady” by Charles Beaumont
- Short Story Review: “In His Image” by Charles Beaumont
- Bellow, Saul
- Bible (Old Testament)
- Reason and Revelation in the Bible
- Notes on the Context of the Tanakh
- Where did the Hebrew Bible Come From?
- Political Theology in the Bible: An Exegesis
- Genesis III: In Defense of the Serpent
- Genesis I: The Seven Days of Creation Examined
- Genesis I-III: The Birth of Law
- Genesis XI: The Lord versus the City of Man
- What is Mosaic Law?
- Moses as Lawgiver
- Notes on Leviticus
- Notes on Numbers
- The Words of Moses
- What Is The Old Testament?
- Joshua: A Book of Conquest
- Reflections on Judges
- I Samuel Chapters 8-14: Israel’s Demand for a King
- Saul Weeps, David Dances, And Solomon Judges
- Prophecy and Apocalypse in Isaiah
- Thoughts on Jeremiah
- Thoughts on Ezekiel
- Infidelity in Hosea
- Plague and Drought in Joel
- Notes on Amos
- The Reckoning of Edom in Obadiah
- Notes on Jonah in Nineveh
- Further Consideration of Jonah
- Notes on Micah
- Notes on Nahum
- The Just Shall Live By His Faith: Habakkuk Considered
- “The Day of the Lord” in Zephaniah
- Haggai: A Plea To Rebuild the Temple
- Eight Visions in Zechariah
- The Messenger in Malachi
- In Consideration of Psalms
- “Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death” – On Psalm 23
- Thoughts on the Book of Proverbs
- Theodicy in the Book of Job
- In Appreciation of the Song of Songs
- The Harvest of Ruth
- Sorrow, Anger, and Hope in Lamentations
- Qohelet’s Somber Reflections
- The Persian Fantasy of Esther
- Daniel: A Book of Dreams and Dark Prophecy
- Thoughts on Ezra-Nehemiah
- Thoughts on Ezra-Nehemiah
- Thoughts on Chronicles
- Bible (New Testament)
- Thoughts on the “Newness” of the New Testament
- Where Did The New Testament Come From?
- Notes on the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
- The Story of the King James Bible
- Political Theology in the Bible: An Exegesis
- Matthew Chapter 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount
- Comparing the Death of Jesus in the Four Gospels
- Notes on Luke-Acts
- On the Logos in the Gospel of John
- The Law in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
- Discord in the Early Church: Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
- Rejection of Mosaic Law in Galatians
- Notes on Paul’s Letter to Ephesus
- Notes on Paul’s Letter to Philippi
- Notes on Paul’s Letter to Collossae
- Notes on Paul’s Two Letters to Thessolonica
- On the Corpus Pastorale
- A Brief Note on Philemon
- “Jesus As Superior To Moses” – Thoughts on Hebrews
- Thoughts on the Epistle of James
- Peter’s Message in His First Epistle
- The Question of Scriptural Authority in Peter’s Second Epistle
- Eyewitness Testimony in the Johannine Epistles
- Notes on the Unusual Epistle of Jude
- A Vision of Horror and Apocalypse in John’s Revelation
- Biblical Apocrypha (Old Testament)
- Notes on 1 and 2 EsdrasTobit: An Apocryphal RomanceJudith: Israel’s Great HeroineBrief Notes on the Rest of EstherThoughts on the Book of WisdomThoughts on Wisdom in EcclesiasticusNotes on the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of JeremyNotes on Additions to the Book of DanielSusanna: An Apocryphal FableNotes on Additions to the Book of DanielThoughts on the Prayer of Manasseh
- Biblical Apocrypha (New Testament)
- The Story of the Nag Hammadi Library
- The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Thoughts on the Shepherd of Hermas
- Notes on the Epistle of Barnabas
- Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Philip
- Thoughts on the Gospel of Thomas
- Two Texts Called The Apocalypse of Peter
- On Clement’s Letter to the Corinthians
- Thoughts on the Didache
- Blish, James
- Bromfield, Louis
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Bunyan, John
- Burns, Robert
- Butler, Robert Olen
C
- Cather, Willa
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
- On “Chaucer’s Dialectic: How the Establishment Theology is Subjected to Scrutiny in Five Canterbury Tales” by Barbara Tovey
- Chaucer’s Silence: On The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- “Make Of Two Sorrows One Perfect Joy” A Reading of The Knight’s Tale
- The Idea of Requital in The Miller’s Tale
- A Defense of Justice in The Reeve’s Tale
- Notes on the Unfinished Cook’s Tale
- A Story of “Joy after Woe” in The Man of Law’s Tale
- The Wife of Bath’s Tale: Autobiography and Arthurian Parody
- Intentionality in The Friar’s Tale
- Aristotelian Mimesis: The Conflict Between the Friar and the Summoner
- The Scholar’s Desire for Power: A Reading of The Clerk’s Tale
- A Qualified Defense of Marriage in The Merchant’s Tale
- On The (Interrupted) Squire’s Tale
- Pity and Promises in the Franklin’s Tale
- History Contra Poetics in The Physician’s Tale
- Disingenuous Authorial Intent in The Pardoner’s Tale
- The Principle of Exchange in The Shipman’s Tale
- A Hollow Story of Martyrdom In The Prioress’s Tale
- On Chaucerian Irony in the Tale of Sir Thopas
- Deprivation and Excess in The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee
- Seventeen Tragic Biographies in The Monk’s Tale
- “The latter ende of joye is wo” On The Dangerous Significance of Poetry in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- Authorship in the Second Nun’s Tale
- Trickery and Alchemy in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
- On The Wisdom of Silence in The Manciple’s Tale
- An Appeal to Common Wisdom in the Final Tale: The Parson’s Tale
- Cheever, John
- Christie, Agatha
- Book Review: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: The Murder on the Links (1923) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Poirot Investigates (1924) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: The Big Four (1927) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Black Coffee (1930) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Peril at End House (1932) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Lord Edgware Dies (1933) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie
- Book Review: Three Act Tragedy (1934) by Agatha Christie
- Churchill, Winston
- Pre-Roman Britain
- Roman Britain – Julius Caesar Invades Britannia (55-54 BC)
- Roman Britain – Claudius Invades Britannia (AD 43) & the End of Roman Britain
- Anglo-Saxon England, Part I
- Anglo-Saxon England, Part II
- Alfred the Great (871-899)
- Anglo-Saxon England, Part III
- Anglo-Saxon England, Part IV
- William the Conqueror & The Norman Invasion of 1066
- The Norman Kings: William II, Henry I, Stephen & Matilda (1066-1154)
- The Plantagenets (Angevin): Henry II (1154-1189)
- The Plantagenets (Angevin): Richard I “Coeur de Lion” (1189-1199)
- The Plantagenets (Angevin): John and Magna Carta (1199-1216)
- The Plantagenets: Henry III (1216-1272)
- The Plantagenets: Edward I “Longshanks” (1272-1307)
- The Plantagenets: Edward II (1307-1327)
- The Plantagenets: Edward III & the Hundred Years War (1327-1377)
- The Plantagenets: Richard II (1377-1399)
- The Plantagenets: Henry IV (1399-1413)
- The Plantagenets: Henry V (1413-1422)
- The Plantagenets: Henry VI, Edward IV, & The Wars of the Roses (1422-1483)
- The Plantagenets: Edward V & Richard III (1483-1485)
- The Tudors: Henry VII (1485-1509)
- The Tudors: Henry VIII & The English Reformation (1509-1547)
- The Tudors: Edward VI & Lady Jane Grey (1547-1553)
- The Tudors: Mary I (1553-1558)
- The Tudors: Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
- The Stuarts: James I (1603-1625)
- The Stuarts: Charles I & The English Civil War (1625-1649)
- Interregnum: Oliver Cromwell, The Commonwealth, & The Lord Protectorate (1649-1660)
- The Stuarts: Charles II & The Restoration (1660-1685)
- The Stuarts: James II & The Glorious Revolution (1685-1689)
- The Stuarts: William and Mary (1689-1702)
- The Stuarts: Anne & The United Kingdom of Great Britain (1702-1714)
- The Hanoverians: George I (1714-1727)
- The Hanoverians: George II (1727-1760)
- The Hanoverians: George III (1760-1820)
- The Hanoverians: George IV (1820-1830)
- The Hanoverians: William IV (1830-1837)
- The Hanoverians: Victoria (1837-1901)
- Clement of Rome
- Clement of Alexandria
- Cogswell, Theodore R. and Charles A. Spano, Jr.
- Confucius
- Córdova, Zoraida
- Corey, James S. A.
- Cox, Greg
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Crispin, A.C.
D
- Dahl, Roald
- Davis, Harold “H.L.”
- Dawson, Delilah
- Defoe, Daniel
- Diodorus Sicilus
- Diogenes Laertius
- Toward an Understanding of Diogenes Laertius and his Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- What Is The Value of Biography?
- On the Prologue to Diogenes Laertius’s Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Thales
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Solon
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Anaximander
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Anaximenes
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Anaxagoras
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Socrates
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Xenophon
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Plato
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Aristotle
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Diogenes of Sinope
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Zeno of Citiam
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Pythagoras
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Empedocles
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Heraclitus
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Parmenides
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Democritus
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Pyrrho
- On Diogenes Laertius’s Biography of Epicurus
- Dixon, Franklin W.
- Drury, Allen
E
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Eklund, Gordon
- Enuma Elish
- Euclid
- Euripides
- The Context of the Greek Tragedians
- What Is The Chorus in Greek Tragedy?
- On Euripides’s Alcestis
- On The Medea
- Tragedy and Patriotism in Euripides’s Heracleidae
- Oaths and Truth-Telling in Hippolytus
- Thoughts on Andromache
- What Is Tragic About Greek Tragedy? Euripides’s Hecuba Considered
- Thoughts on The Suppliants
- Electra in Aeschylus vs. Euripides
- Comparing Clytemnestra and Lady Macbeth
- The Lack of Hamartia in Euripides’s Heracles
- Brief Thoughts on The Trojan Women
- Thoughts on Iphigenia in Tauris
- Euripides and the Gods: Ion
- Examining Euripides’s Helen
- Thoughts on The Phoenician Women
- The Failure of Orestes
- The Dangers of the Poets in The Bacchae
- The Tragedy of Mob-Rule: Iphigenia in Aulis
- Brief Notes on the Rhesus
- Euripides’s Opinion of Odysseus: The Cyclops Considered
- Eusebius
F
- Faulkner, Willliam
- Ferber, Edna
- Fielding, Henry
- A Note on Fortune and Fate in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book I
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book II
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book III
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book IV
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book V
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book VI
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book VII
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book VIII
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book IX
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book X
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XI
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XII
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XIII
- Refections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XIV
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XV
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVI
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVII
- Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVIII
- Five Chinese Classics
- Flavin, Martin
- Fleming, Ian
- Book Review: Casino Royale (1953) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Live and Let Die (1954) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Moonraker (1955) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Diamonds Are Forever (1956) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: From Russia, with Love (1957) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Dr. No (1958) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Goldfinger (1959) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: For Your Eyes Only (1960) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Thunderball (1961) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: You Only Live Twice (1964) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) by Ian Fleming
- Book Review: Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966) by Ian Fleming
G
- Gathas
- Gilgamesh, Epic of
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Grau, Shirley Ann
- Gray, Claudia
H
- Haldeman, Joe
- Hammurabi, The Code of
- Hemingway, Ernest
- On the Epic Life of Ernest Hemingway
- Notes on Hemingway’s “Writers At Work” Paris Review Interview (1958)
- Book Review: The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
- Book Review: For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
- 1953 Pulitzer Prize Review: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “Up In Michigan” (1923) by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “On The Quai at Smyrna” (1930) by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (1933) by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” (1936) by Ernest Hemingway
- Short Story Review: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936) by Ernest Hemingway
- Herbert, Frank
- Herodotus
- On Herodotus
- The Purpose of the Histories: Notes on Book I
- The Empires of Croesus and Cyrus
- The Rise of Egypt: Notes on Book II
- Egypt, Persia, and the New Regime: Book III
- Darius and the New Persian Regime
- The Battle of Marathon: Book VI
- Xerxes, Thermopylae, and Salamis: Books VII – IX
- Notes on Athenian Democracy
- What Is History?
- Hersey, John
- Hesiod
- Hijuelos, Oscar
- Hippocrates
- Homer
- Political Philosophy in the Iliad
- On the Homeric Question
- What is the Rage of Achilles?
- Thoughts on Odysseus and Achilles
- On the Homeric Gods
- Persuading Achilles: Books IX, XVI, XXIV Considered
- The Iliad and the Odyssey: Two Proems Compared
- Book XVIII of the Iliad: Examining the Shield of Achilles
- On the Homeric Question
- Thoughts on Odysseus and Achilles
- Notes on the Telemachia, Books I-IV
- On the Homeric Gods
- Nature and Order in Homer
- The Iliad and the Odyssey: Two Proems Compared
- Phemius and Demodocus: Two Bards Considered
- Notes on Odysseus’s Tale to the Phaeacians
- Books X-XI: Revisiting Odysseus’s Descent into Hades
- Commentary on the Form of the “Homeric Hymns”
I
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Irenaeus of Lyon
J
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry
- Johnson, Josephine Winslow
- Josephus
- Justin Martyr
- Saint Jerome
K
- Kagan, Donald
- Kantor, MacKinlay
- Karpyshyn, Drew
- Kennedy, William
- King, Stephen
L
- La Farge, Oliver
- Lawrence, J.A.
- Lebbon, Tim
- Lee, Harper
- Lewis, C.S.
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Book Review: Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis
- Book Review: Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis
- 1926 Pulitzer Prize Review: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
- Book Review: Elmer Gantry (1927) by Sinclair Lewis
- Book Review: Dodsworth (1929) by Sinclair Lewis
- Book Review: It Can’t Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
- Luceno, James
- Lurie, Alison
M
- Mack, David
- Maclean, Norman
- Magna Carta
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mandel, Emily St. John
- Marshak, Sandra and Myrna Culbreath
- Marquand, John P.
- Matheson, Richard
- McIntyre, Vonda
- McMurtry, Larry
- McPherson, James Alan
- Menander
- Mencius
- Michener, James
- Miller, Caroline
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Morrison, Toni
N
- Nicene Creed
O
- Origen of Alexandria
- O’Connor, Edwin
P
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Saint Patrick
- Pearson, John
- Perrault, Charles
- Perry, Steve
- Peterkin, Julia
- Pindar
- Plato
- On the Authorship of Plato
- Mapping the Platonic Dialogues
- Thoughts on the Trial of Socrates and the Socratic Project
- Thoughts on the Apology of Socrates
- Notes on Plato’s Crito
- Thoughts on Plato’s Charmides
- Initial Thoughts on Plato’s Laches
- The Question of Courage in the Laches
- Socrates’s Failure in the Lysis
- Notes on Plato’s Euthyphro
- The Problem of Rhapsody in Plato’s Ion
- The Exploration of Beauty in the Greater Hippias
- On Truth and Lies in the Lesser Hippias
- Thoughts on the Gorgias
- The Gorgias, A Dialogue of War and Battle
- The Examination of Virtue in the Protagoras
- Socrates and Meno
- Thoughts on the Euthydemus
- Euthydemus’s Form of Relativism
- Cratylus: Plato’s Dialogue on Language
- On the Significance of the Death of Socrates
- Initial Notes on Plato’s Phaedrus
- Socrates and Phaedrus on Love
- An Analysis of the Soul in the Phaedrus
- The Soul in the Phaedrus and the Republic
- Thoughts on the Setting of Plato’s Symposium
- The Symposium I: Phaedrus
- The Symposium II: Pausanius
- The Symposium III: Erixymachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, and Alcibiades
- What is Love in the Symposium?
- Plato’s Republic, Book I (Part I): Introduction
- Plato’s Republic, Book I (Part II): Cephalus
- Plato’s Republic, Book I (Part III): Polemarchus
- Plato’s Republic, Book I (Part IV): Thrasymachus
- Plato’s Republic, Book II (Part I): Glaucon and Adeimantus
- Plato’s Republic, Book II (Part II): The City In Speech
- Plato’s Republic, Book III: The Noble Lie
- Plato’s Republic, Book IV: The Cardinal Virtues
- Plato’s Republic, Book V: Communism and the Philosopher King
- Plato’s Republic, Book VI: The Defense of the Philosophers
- Plato’s Republic, Book VII: “The Allegory of the Cave”
- Plato’s Republic, Book VIII: The Decay of the Regimes
- Plato’s Republic, Book IX: The Soul of the Tyrant
- Plato’s Republic, Book X: The Poets and the Myth of Er
- The Soul in the Phaedrus and the Republic
- The Teaching of the Republic
- Outline of the Theaetetus
- Why Theaetetus?
- A Note on Temporality in the Theaetetus
- The Silence of Socrates: Plato’s Parmenides
- Considering Plato’s Sophist
- Thoughts on Plato’s Statesman
- Wandering Thoughts on the Philebus
- Timaeus and the Likely Story
- Plato’s Laws, Book I: The Divine Puppet
- Plato’s Laws: Notes on Books II-IV
- Platonic Apocrypha
- Notes on Plato’s Seventh Letter
- On The First Alcibiades
- On The Idea of Prayer in The Second Alcibiades
- The Platonic Epinomis: A Sequel to the Laws
- Considering A Funeral Oration Speech in the Menexenus
- On the Hipparchus, or Lovers of Gain
- Notes on Plato’s Lovers
- On the Cleitophon
- On the Theages
- What is Law in the Minos?
- Plutarch
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- Poole, Ernest
- Porter, Katherine Anne
Q
R
- Rabelais, Francois
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Reaves, Michael
- Reynolds, Mack
- Richter, Conrad
- Robinson, Marilynne
S
- Sappho
- Serling, Anne
- Serling, Rod
- Short Story Review: “The Mighty Casey” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “Escape Clause” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “Walking Distance” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Fever” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “Where Is Everybody?” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Lonely” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “Mr. Dingle, The Strong” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “A Thing About Machines” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Big, Tall Wish” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “A Stop At Willoughby” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Odyssey of Flight 33” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “Dust” by Rod Serling
- Short Story Review: “The Whole Truth” by Rod Serling
- Shaara, Michael
- Shakespeare, William
- Who Is William Shakespeare?
- On Stephen Greenblatt’s “Will in the World”
- On “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606” by James Shapiro
- Some Notes On As You Like It, Act I
- Some Notes On As You Like It, Act II
- “All The World’s A Stage” Considered
- Introduction to Hamlet
- “Crawling Between Earth and Heaven:” A Reading of Hamlet
- Reflections on Norway, Denmark, and Hamlet’s Ghost
- A Note on Shakespeare’s “Bad Quarto” of Hamlet
- On “Hamlet: The Cosmopolitan Prince” by Paul Cantor
- Introduction to Macbeth
- A Classical Hero in the Modern World: A Reading of Macbeth
- “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” Considered
- Examining the Thanes in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- Comparing Clytemnestra and Lady Macbeth
- On Children and Natural Limits in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- On “Macbeth: Driven into Darkness” by Timothy Burns
- On “A Soldier and Afeard: Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland” by Paul A. Cantor
- On David Lowenthal’s Essay on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
- Ancient Valor and Modern Humility: A Reading of Othello
- Thoughts on the Clown in Shakespeare’s Othello
- On Allan Bloom’s “Cosmopolitan Man and the Political Community”
- “Then Shall the Realm of Albion Come to Great Confusion” A Reading of King Lear
- On “King Lear: The Question of Divine Justice” by Timothy Burns
- On “The Limits of Politics: King Lear, Act I, Scene I” by Harry Jaffa
- “Valour is the Chiefest Virtue:” A Reading of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
- On John Alvis’s “Coriolanus and Aristotle’s Magnanimous Man Reconsidered”
- “The Fault is Not in Our Stars:” A Reading of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
- A Few Notes on “Julius Caesar: The Problem of Classical Republicanism” by Timothy W. Burns
- Notes on “The Morality of the Pagan Hero” by Allan Bloom
- On David Lowenthal’s Essay on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
- Love is the Chiefest Virtue: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
- On “Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire” by Paul Cantor
- On “Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World” by Paul Cantor
- “Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” A Reading of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
- On Allan Bloom’s Essay on “Romeo and Juliet”
- “The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth” A Reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Brief Notes on David Lowenthal’s Essay on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- “All the World’s A Stage” A Reading of As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- “I Am Unkinged By Bolingbroke” A Reading of William Shakespeare’s Richard II
- Shelley, Mary
- Sinclair, Upton
- Smiley, Jane
- Smith, Betty
- Sophocles
- Simonides
- Sky, Kathleen
- Stackpole, Michael
- Star Wars Book Review: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (1996) by Michael A. Stackpole
- Star Wars Book Review: X-Wing: Wedge’s Gamble (1996) by Michael A. Stackpole
- Star Wars Book Review: X-Wing: The Krytos Trap (1996) by Michael A. Stackpole
- Star Wars Book Review: X-Wing: The Bacta War (1997) by Michael A. Stackpole
- Steinbeck, John
- Stine, R.L.
- Goosebumps Review #1: Welcome to Dead House (1992) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #2: Stay Out of the Basement (1992) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #3: Monster Blood (1992) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #4: Say Cheese and Die! (1992) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #5: The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #6: Let’s Get Invisible (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #7: Night of the Living Dummy (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #8: The Girl Who Cried Monster (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #9: Welcome to Camp Nightmare (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #10: The Ghost Next Door (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #11: The Haunted Mask (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #12: Be Careful What You Wish For… (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #13: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #14: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1993) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #15: You Can’t Scare Me! (1994) by R.L. Stine
- Goosebumps Review #16: One Day at Horrorland (1994) by R.L. Stine
- Stoker, Bram
- Stribling, Thomas Sigismund
- Styron, William
- Suetonius
- Swift, Jonathan
- Who Is Jonathan Swift?
- Thoughts on “A Tale Of A Tub” and the “Battle of the Books”
- Jonathan Swift and the Idea of Satire
- Whither Gulliver? Reflections on Gulliver’s Travels
- Disentangling Irony in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
- On Allan Bloom’s “Giants and Dwarfs: An Outline of Gulliver’s Travels”
T
- Tarkington, Booth
- Taylor, Peter
- Taylor, Robert Lewis
- Tertullian
- Thucydides
- Thucydides on Greek Origins
- Reflections on Thucydides
- Thucydides on Pericles and the Plague
- The Peloponnesian War, Book I: Setting The Stage for War
- The Peloponnesian War, Book II: Proxy Wars and Pericles’s Funeral Oration
- The Peloponnesian War, Book III: Invasion and Revolution
- The Peloponnesian War, Book IV: Armistice and Mounting Losses
- The Peloponnesian War, Book V: Battle Recommences and Melos Is Enslaved
- The Peloponnesian War, Book VI: Sicily, Alcibiades, and the Hermae
- The Peloponnesian War, Books VII-VIII: Athens in Decline and an Abrupt Ending
- What Is A Eulogy? Ethos, Pathos, and Logos In Pericles’s Funeral Oration Speech
- The Sicilian Expedition: Alcibiades and Nicias in Thucydides’s Peloponnesian War (Books VI-VII)
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Tyers, Kathy
- Tyler, Anne
- Tzu, Lao
U
- Upanishads
- Updike, John
V
- Vedas
- Verne, Jules
- Villeneuve, Madame de
- Virgil
- Voltaire
W
- Walker, Alice
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Wells, H.G.
- Welty, Eudora
- Wharton, Edith
- Wilder, Thornton
- Wilson, Margaret
- Wouk, Herman
X
- Xenophon
- Initial Thoughts on Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
- On Xenophon’s Ascent
- A Brief Introduction to Xenophon’s Hellenika
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book I: The Return of Alcibiades
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book II: Lysander, The Thirty Tyrants, & The Downfall of Athens
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book III: Sparta’s Struggle for Hegemony
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book IV: Greek Rebellion Against The Spartan Hegemony
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book V: Teleutias and The King’s Peace
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book VI: Proxy Wars of Sparta, Thebes, and Athens
- Xenophon’s Hellenika Book VII: The End of Battle With Little Gained
- On The Arginousai Affair in Xenophon and Diodorus Sicilus
- On Xenophon’s Account of Socrates in the Memorabilia
- Socrates’s Desire to Die: On Xenophon’s Apology
- A Gentleman Laughing, Dancing, and Singing: Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium
- Xenophon’s Perfect Country Gentleman in the Oeconomicus
Y
Z
- Zahn, Timothy