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  • Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?

    Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?0

    Like many news outlets at this time of year, The Boston Globe recently profiled several young high school students preparing for the pomp and circumstance of graduation. But The Globe took a different angle than normal and stepped inside the world of a homeschool graduation ceremony: “‘Pomp and Circumstance’ played softly from computer speakers hooked

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  • Homer’s Advice for Fathers and Sons

    Homer’s Advice for Fathers and Sons0

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power

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  • Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale

    Homer’s ‘Iliad’ is a Morality Tale0

    Sing, Muse, of Achilles’ anger and its devastation … and of the will of Zeus which was done. – Homer The opening lines of Homer’s epic, The Iliad, say it all. In these first few words, the poet betrays his purpose and unpacks the deepest meaning of his work. He begins with a prayer to

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  • Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives

    Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives0

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power

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  • Homer Simpson, the Unlikely Moral Exemplar

    Homer Simpson, the Unlikely Moral Exemplar0

    Homer Simpson is far from a good person. Among his many defects are alcoholism, sleeping on the job, a general disregard for the law, a gambling problem, and child abuse in the regular strangling of Bart. Yet in spite of his many moral shortcomings, there is one way in which the Simpson family patriarch has

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  • Homer on Why Hospitality is the Greatest Virtue

    Homer on Why Hospitality is the Greatest Virtue0

    Perhaps you would like to know what virtue I consider the greatest of all. For me that question is not a difficult one. Though I celebrate courage in my Iliad and perseverance in my Odyssey, there is a third, greater virtue, apart from which civilization can neither thrive nor survive. I speak of xenia, a

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