Ecce Homo is book #223 from The Literary Project. Ecce Homo is technically considered an autobiography, although it must be pointed out that there is much to be desired in terms of what one usually expects from a biographical account. Life events and facts within […]
De Rerum Natura is book #34 from The Literary Project. De Rerum Natura–or On the Nature of the Universe–is a didactic poem that is, as a whole, “a philosophical meditation on human happiness.” It explores the world from an epistemological perspective—possibly the earliest form of scientific inquiry […]
As I read through the ancient classics, I don’t normally dwell on how it is that this particular epic poem or that drama came to rest in my hands after thousands of years. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt offers […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
Tao Te Ching is book #7 from The Literary Project. Lao Tzu (also known as Lao Tze and Laozi), is the reputed author of Tao Te Ching (or Daodejing). He was the first philosopher of Taoism, giving rise to the Taoist religion as well as influencing Buddhism […]
Fragments is book #6 from The Literary Project. Heraclitus of Ephesus (535-475 BCE) was heir to the throne of the powerful ancient Greek city (located on the western coast of modern-day Turkey), but chose to abdicate the throne to pursue a life of wisdom instead. “For […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
This essay was part of the 2016 Deal Me In Reading Challenge, where I read a short story, essay, or poem every single week. Each item on my reading list was assigned to a playing card, and every Friday I picked a card at random […]
“To study literature is to study what people thought, did, believed, suffered for, and argued about in the past. This is history.” ~Susan Wise Bauer [emphasis added] Alongside The Project, I’ll be reading Bauer’s The History of… series in parallel. Bauer writes the chapters themselves […]