Archive - Consider the Lilies

Of Bramble Bushes and Pierian Springs

American lawyers will be familiar with an old nursery rhyme about a wise man and a bramble bush, since it was used by Karl Llewelyn in a well-known set…

May 2, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

March 2023

Papirius's Hoax

I mentioned previously that Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta was one of the first pieces of "real" Latin that I read.

Mar 14, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

Cicero on the Value of Literature

Ramblings on "Pro Archia Poeta"

Mar 9, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

Aeneas Searches for his Lost Wife

For me, one of the most poignant moments in literature is in the second book of the Aeneid, when Aeneas is desperately searching for his wife on the…

Mar 7, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

Tennyson's Aging Ulysses

Life is more than breathing

Mar 6, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

I encountered the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley when I was a teenager exploring this strange and exciting thing called the “World Wide Web…

Mar 6, 2023 • Jeremiah Stoddard

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