Laura Reagan – Page 3 – Baiting the Bear

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Classical Hellenistic Architecture and Art History

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

"And he who would proceed rightly should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms and first, if directed by his instructor, to love one such form only—out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will himself perceive that the beauty of any bodily form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in all visible forms is one and the same!"

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Maps for Peloponnesian War

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

Maps for Peloponnesian War

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Resources for learning Greek

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ

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Oracle at Delphi

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

"Though all else shall be taken, yet shall Zeus grant to the sight A wooden wall that shall not fall; and this shall save you and your children."

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Pre-Socratics

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης. A man never steps in the same river twice.

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Sophocles

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 22, 2025
Post category:Excursus

Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold on Sophocles.

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René Girard La violence et le sacré

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 16, 2025
Post category:Library

Dans de nombreux rituels, le sacrifice se présente de deux façons opposées, tantot comme une chose tres sainte dont on ne saurait s'abstenir sans negligence grave, tantot au contraire comme une espece de crime qu'on ne saurait commettre sans s'exposer a des risques également tres graves. p.9

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René Girard Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 16, 2025
Post category:Library

Pour qu'un vaniteux desire un objet il suffit de le convaincre que cet objet est deja desire par un tiers aquel s'attache un certain prestige. La mediateur est ici un rival que la vanite a d'abord suscite qu'elle a pour ainsi dire, appele a son existence de rival avant d'en exiger la defaite. p.20-21