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In Defense of Thersites
That is the new title of my revised paper (formerly titled “Homer’s Hellenic Humanism“); it’s posted in full below the fold:
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My interpretation of the hawk/nightingale fable
In my previous post, I presented two standard interpretations of the fable of the hawk and the nightingale in Hesiod’s 8th-century B.C. poem Works and Days. Today, I will offer my own novel interpretation of this fable. Specifically, what if … Continue reading
Two interpretations of the hawk-nightingale fable
I introduced the fable of the hawk and the nightingale in my previous post. Today, I will ask, What is the moral of Hesiod’s beautiful bird fable? Alas, there is no holy grail, no single meaning or interpretation that everyone … Continue reading
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