Tag Archives: Saint Jerome

the chance swerve: visions of madness

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

One curious statement about Lucretius appears, not in any contemporary or near-contemporary writer, but in the Christian chronicle of Saint-Jerome: that he was driven mad by a love philter administered by his wife, wrote his famous poem, The Nature of … Continue reading →

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shapes of things: grim final discords

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Dave

….at last the signs of death in the hollowed cheeks and nostrils and bared teeth. Enough? No. Lucretius does not stop there; he goes on, still with the same febrile, fascinated attention, to describe the disintegration of society, the sick … Continue reading →

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rocks of ages and sages

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dave

The rock monasteries of Cappadocia. In the days of Byzantium, monks turned weird rock cones into a city of cells and churches. It was part of central Turkey and a volcano buried the country-side for forty square miles in a … Continue reading →

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HAIL TO THE CHIEF:THE EMPEROR WEARS GOLD & HAS NO CLOTHES

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Dave

”The prevailing soft multiculturalism of our times has made the phrase “the fall of Rome” a surprisingly controversial one. It’s much preferred to talk about “transformation” rather than “decline and fall.” In this “transformationist” view, the High Classical period of … Continue reading →