Paideia

Roses : French Lace ( Floribunda ) Sonnet 55 (By William Shakespeare ) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outli...

Detail of Irises (1889) by Vincent van Gogh  A Prayer in Spring (By Robert Frost ) Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And...

Nino Rota won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather in 1974.  On this date in 1911, the great cinematic compo...

Antirrhinum : Pink Snapdragons  How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) (By William Shakespeare ) How like a winter hath...

Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do s...

My interest in history and Classical civilization started when I first read Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in the 7th grade. W...