The great books will change your life. And the Iliad is the first great book. If you haven't read it, make a goal for 2025 to do so.

Don’t miss the excellent essay on Boethius from our colleague @SJ_Murray in @CTmagazine. Well done, Dr. Murray!

It’s Another Brave New World Don’t miss this excellent essay from our Baylor Honors College colleague Darin Davis! currentpub.com/2024/11/13/it…

Are you lost in a dark wood? m.youtube.com/shorts/T6K1D6a… Thanks to @SJ_Murray and @greatsstorylab @Dante_Aligheri @100DaysofDante

What is creativity? In today’s #GreatThought, Tolkien reminds us that our creativity comes not from ourselves, but is instead an invitation to step into our roles as “sub-creators.”

Giambattista Vico was born OTD in 1668

Happy Juneteenth! #OTD in the history of great texts, Blaise Pascal (1623) and Salman Rushdie (1947) were born, and J.M. Barrie (1937) and William Golding (1993) died.

OTD, James Weldon Johnson (1871) and Jürgen Habermas (1929) were born, and Thomas Kuhn (1996) died.

OTD in 1313, Giovanni Boccaccio, author of The Decameron and one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian literature (with Dante and Petrarch), was born.

OTD in 1716, Alexander Pope published the first volume of his translation of the Iliad. The esteemed classical scholar Richard Bentley said, “It is a very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.” Pope would get his revenge in The Dunciad.

Happy #Bloomsday! OTD in 1904 James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle and later commemorated it as the day his character Leopold Bloom wandered throughout Dublin in the 1922 novel *Ulysses*

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Boethius died 1500 years ago this October. His Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read books in Europe for over a thousand years. If you’ve never read it, make this the year you do!

Common mistake: People think that the great books are packed with familiar cliches, whereas the great books are always startling, whether it's startling familiarity or startling weirdness.

On this day in the history of great texts, Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), and Orhan Pamuk (1952) were born, and Friedrich Hölderlin (1843) and E.M. Forster (1970) died.

Congratulations to our colleague @prof_tom_ward on this important new translation and commentary! We look forward to reading it. Well done!

This is splendid! How did medieval Christians make the works of pre-Christian, pagan writers ("the ancients") into Christian teachings? How could pagans like Aristotle & Ovid write Christian truths? @SJ_Murray and a team at @Baylor explain in a terrific short film...

What a great thread.

What is the Medieval French Ovide? Well, we spent a decade translating it, because we believe it's a "lost book" that changed and shaped the world. Quite possibly, you might think of it as the Divine Comedy of France. Now, learn about how it all began -- and then dig into the translation from @boydellbrewer. With thanks to our editor, @CanaryCaroline :)