
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
- Saint Ambrose
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Bromfield, Louis
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Bunyan, John
- Burns, Robert
C
- Cather, Willa
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
- 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
- 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
- Confucius
- Cozzens, James Gould
D
- Davis, Harold “H.L.”
- 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
E
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- 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
- 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
G
- Gathas
- Gilgamesh, Epic of
- Glasgow, Ellen
H
- Hammurabi, The Code of
- Hemingway, Ernest
- On the Epic Life of Ernest Hemingway
- Notes on Hemingway’s “Writers At Work” Paris Review Interview (1958)
- Heroism and Tragedy in The Sun Also Rises
- Love and War In For Whom The Bell Tolls
- The Writer’s Endurance: The Old Man and the Sea
- A Fall From Grace in “Up In Michigan”
- Thoughts on “On The Quai at Smyrna”
- A New Beginning in “Hills Like White Elephants”
- Contemplating Nihilism in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
- The Mask of Politeness in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
- The Experience of Placelessness in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
- 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
- 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
- Johnson, Josephine Winslow
- Josephus
- Justin Martyr
- Saint Jerome
K
L
- La Farge, Oliver
- Lee, Harper
- Lewis, Sinclair
- The Un-Wholesome Character of Main Street
- Babbitt: A Satire of Middle Class Complacency
- Arrowsmith: A Pulitzer Controversy and a Satire of American Medicine
- Elmer Gantry: A Satire of American Evangelism
- A Collapsing Marriage in Sinclair Lewis’s Dodsworth
- On The Prescience of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here
M
- Maclean, Norman
- Magna Carta
- Marquand, John P.
- Menander
- Mencius
- Michener, James
- Miller, Caroline
- Mitchell, Margaret
N
- Nicene Creed
O
- Origen of Alexandria
P
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Saint Patrick
- Perrault, Charles
- Peterkin, Julia
- Pindar
- Plato
- 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: Pausanias
- 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
- 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
Q
R
- Rabelais, Francois
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Robinson, Marilynne
S
- Sappho
- Serling, Rod
- On Rod Serling’s “The Mighty Casey”
- On Rod Serling’s “Escape Clause”
- On Rod Serling’s “Walking Distance”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Fever”
- On Rod Serling’s “Where Is Everybody?”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Lonely”
- On Rod Serling’s “Mr. Dingle, The Strong”
- On Rod Serling’s “A Thing About Machines”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Big, Tall Wish”
- On Rod Serling’s “A Stop At Willoughby”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Odyssey of Flight 33”
- On Rod Serling’s “Dust”
- On Rod Serling’s “The Whole Truth”
- Shakespeare, William
- On Stephen Greenblatt’s “Will in the World”
- 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
- 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
- Sinclair, Upton
- Sophocles
- Simonides
- Steinbeck, John
- Stribling, Thomas Sigismund
- Suetonius
- Swift, Jonathan
T
- Tarkington, Booth
- 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)
- Tzu, Lao
U
- Upanishads
V
- Vedas
- Villeneuve, Madame de
- Virgil
- Voltaire
W
- Walker, Alice
- Warren, Robert Penn
- 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