Why the Greeks?

Why do we return to Greek literature, ideas, and culture again and again? I ask this as someone who is happily rooted in classical Christian education, which is an education grounded in the Greco-Roman tradition but submitted to a Christian worldview, but everyone who is lives in the Western world is a cultural offspring of …

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A Better Hope Than Homer

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XoEFi2sI1jxPMsTH2vL8Q?si=M7SLbjX7TZWPM-4v4ARpKQ A couple of months ago, for no particular reason, I grabbed my copy of Tolkien's translation of Beowulf off the shelf and began to read. Having only read bit of Beowulf in high school, I only remembered that Beowulf fights a monster named Grendel and a dragon. While I have since learned that, though …

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