Excursus – Baiting the Bear

Bible and the History of Political Thought

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:April 16, 2026
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How did it go before versus how is it going now. Before approaching the Western History of Political Thought I studied the Bible in the context of listening to it in…

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Prometheus

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 30, 2026
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Deutscher, Penny The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 16, 2026
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Archaeology and Art History Roman Republic and Augustan Age

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:December 7, 2025
Post category:Excursus

"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind." Cicero

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Learn Latin

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 25, 2025
Post category:Excursus

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

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Homeric Poems

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:November 25, 2025
Post category:Excursus

"Cyclops, try this wine—flesh of the grape, it is— just see what stock we carried in our hold. This was the drink I planned to offer you, hoping you would receive me, treat me well, and speed me home. But you rage on, unbearable, madman that you are."

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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!"