Then, in that post, came this bit: 2) Plato hated Homer—the sheer number of times Socrates tells us, especially in Republic, that Homer (w...

So, since no one seemed to object to my idea of using Living Epic , for the foreseeable future, as a place to riff on my stuff at PlaythePas...

I’ve been searching for a way to use this blog, where I’ve done so much that I’m proud of, as something other than an adjunct to what I’m do...

This is a republication of a post from playthepast.org, which in turn was a drastically re-written version of a post that appeared on this b...

It's not often that I get to play a game in synch with the rest of the gaming world—that is, when the game releases—and most of the time...

This is just a pointer to my latest update on LOTROreporter, in which I chronicle my students' rescue of their bardic leader from a (fi...

I've seen it frequently enough both in myself and in people I'm talking to—notably my students and my classicist colleagues—that it ...

This semester, as I mentioned below, I'm going all in on practomime tic education. In my myth course, I've divided the three hundred...

This blog may have some readers who have managed to miss the controversy surrounding the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warf...

The dice—one six-sided die for each class-team, borrowed from my kids' copy of Yahtzee —went out yesterday. I'd been going back and ...

Here at last is the fifth in the PPP series. The skeleton of this post was written more than a year ago, but in writing it I realized that ...

This post takes us from homeric epic to a key moment of its reception in classical Athens, Plato. In it, I begin mini-series about Plato’s ...

This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...

This is a post in a series expressing the essence of my argument about how video games are actually ancient, how they reawaken the anicent o...

You can find the comments appended here . It seems like a good idea to attempt to summarize individually and then respond individually to wh...