The Importance of Footnotes
“Editing is not merely a scholarly exercise of compiling information. It is a rhetorical art.” This statement comes from Kate Bennett, one of the 14 experts who have written chapters…
Xenophon’s Irony
Xenophon (430-354 BCE) is best remembered as a great military leader, but he was also a prolific author. Fortunately, many of his works still survive. A fresh look at these…
Philosophy & Rhetoric
Philosophy and rhetoric have had a rocky relationship for a long time, going back to ancient Greece, but in this book a philosopher says they are not enemies. Donald Phillip…
The Biggest Confidence Man in History
Review by Dr. M. Emanuele What is Donald Trump’s favourite book? Is it Dr Seuss? Is it the Bible (which he likes to hold upside down like a disciple of…
Elizabethan English
Anyone who has heard a play by Shakespeare knows what a wonder on the ears it is. Elizabethan English is a delight, but also a challenge to the modern ear.…
Was Homer a Fraud?
You will never appreciate Homer the same way again after reading this book. It deals with alternative readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as penned by Sophists some 2,000…