A Prayer for the Farming Year In honour of Earth Day, I would like to share with you Virgil’s beautiful description of nature’s order...

The Simple Joys of Nature ’…a speeding cormorant, crossing the waters, catching fish as it hurtles into the waves, salting its wings’....

Homer's Similes: Human Beings and Nature's Analogies I suspect we have all been feeling a little deluged by events over the past few...

We have all dreamt., and these may be some familiar scenes: mash ups of scenes and settings familiar to us, but which aren’t normally...

According to the Homer Bot on Twitter, my day will be like: 'the shining evening star, bright in the night's dark.' (Iliad 22.317-20)...

Humans being fond of their animals is nothing new. We may think we are ‘kinder’ nowadays, and we do have a greater awareness of ‘Animal...

I came across an article the other day that queried the relevance of degrees in the modern job market. This annoyed me for two main...

About a year ago a good friend of mine, ancient philosophy scholar, Nicholas Denyer (Trinity College, Cambridge) shared the following...

This simple, but beautiful and very moving little pearl of wisdom comes from the character Tecmessa in Sophocles’ Ajax. Once a Trojan...

To study another language is to study another people. To study their literature, music, art, science, engineering, daily practices and...

I like the word INEVITABLE. Not because I particularly like its meaning, but because I like the story of its journey into English....

Part 1: Jigsaw Joan’s Little Lesson Watching my toddler giggling happily as he completed his Paw Patrol jigsaw, I fell to musing on...

“42.” Yes, but what is the question? Fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (of which I am one) will smile at this reference to this...

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe...

The Human Heart of Myth part IV

The Perennial Quest Part II A modern observer might raise an eyebrow or even laugh at this notion. How can a half-man bull, or half-bull...

The Perennial Quest Myth and Meaning Should similarities in far-flung myths from across the world be attributed to a common ‘archetype’...

The Human Heart of Myth It is very easy to think of myths as stories full of magic and fantasy and should not be taken as serious in...

We have all had that tantalizing moment, seeing something that makes us think, ‘oh, yes, that looks lovely’, but which for some reason we...