"What from the founder Esop fell, In neat familiar verse I tell: Twofold's the genius of the page, To make you smile and make you sage." This month's Book Club selection are the Fables of the Roman writer Phaedrus. You can read whatever selection you wish. As always, discussion will start and continue in the Forum, and we will meet via Zoom at 11 a.m. EDT, on Tuesday April 27. Read more
This time our Core Vocab exploration, taken from terms listed in H24H and tracked in the associated Sourcebook, is about ainos [αἶνος] ‘authoritative utterance for and by a social group; praise; fable’; and the related word ainigma [αἴνιγμα] ‘riddle’. Gregory Nagy provides this working definition: "an ainos is a performance of ambivalent wording that becomes clarified once it is correctly understood and then applied in moments of making moral decisions… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Arti Mehta, Lecturer of Classics at Howard University, for our Open House discussion on Aesop. The discussion compared examples of fables from different sources, available in a handout 'Aesop and Fable: A God of Small Things". Read more
“A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: 'Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.' The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal … The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare,… Read more
