Curious reader, you may be eager to know what was then said and done? (Apuleius Metamorphoses – adapted) Oct 1 We remember her words in our remake of Plato’s analogy of the Cave: I know that these shadows are the myths that have enthralled and educated generations in this place throughout the ages. I know […]
In our current state of governmental chaos, I hark back to a surprisingly overlooked statement by President Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson. After completing his medical assessment of Trump, Jackson stated, and I paraphrase, that Trump was highly unusual in that each day he begins anew, unfettered by memory or attention to consequences […]
A large black and silver volume caught his eye. He pulled it out with difficulty, because it was very heavy, and, balancing it on his knee, let it fall open. A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence — the book was screaming! Harry snapped it shut, but the shriek went on and on, one high, […]
Moving past our time-based posts so far this year, we were going to write about names and roles today. We were specifically intent on contrasting Trump’s infantile name-calling of ex-FBI Director James Comey (“Showboat” “Nut job”, “Slime ball”), with the latter’s focus, in his new book A Higher Loyalty and his recent interviews, not on names, […]
We are currently reading Amy Siskind’s brilliant snd terrifying book The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year which, along with her original website The Weekly List: This Is How Democracy Ends, is a vital reference work as we write No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump. Reading Siskind’s book […]
We are currently in Nashville, on the road to Dollywood, and so we don’t have time to write a post today. (If you want to come along with us, from where you are, there is no better guide than our friend and fellow Classicist Helen Morales’ 2014 book Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road […]
Looking back, we will never forget this day (May 3). Here we are, still in the time after the inauguration and before the wall, as Trump’s relentless abuses continue with the recent signing of the new transgender military ban. As you know, we have been meeting downtown every Monday evening. We sometimes tell you about […]
April 19: As Trump orders tightening of visas for highly skilled foreign workers, Minus Plato are in New York City learning about the connection between Persian couriers and US mail-workers. April 20: As Minus Plato travel the subway in search of the Minotaur of the subway, we learn that a Russian Putin-linked think tank developed […]
Did Eos live within a system that reduced her world? – Claudia La Rocco In Cicero’s reworking on the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic, he presents the fictional dream of Scipio Aemilianus, in which his illustrious (adoptive) grandfather Scipio Africanus explains how the soul escapes the prison of the body to live the true […]
