tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15302273.post112545588387833556..comments2023-10-08T04:31:20.162-04:00Comments on The Secret Thread: Literature & Spiritual Life: Thoughts on reading The Aeneid (19 B.C.) for the first time in 2005Duke Altumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17494561267128023739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15302273.post-1125966583049892472005-09-05T20:29:00.000-04:002005-09-05T20:29:00.000-04:00Duke is making sense! Meaty post here from power-...Duke is making sense! Meaty post here from power-reader Duke Altum. Duke's been on my case for years to read the ancient writers, the Greek classics, etc. and I have to admit I haven't done much of it. But with a blog like this, he might get me to re-think my lame efforts and fit one in soon. I have purloined his copy of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, after all. Neither of which I have ever read. The last line of Duke's post showed he's got a lot of sense. You have to wonder about that question he raises......whether progress is worth it if it isn't going anywhere helpful or enlightening to anyone. Maybe reading these classics helps one to bring out good points such as this one. Maybe they just make you more 'cultured' or able to win Trivial Pursuit games, as Duke suggested, but he knows better, and so do I.....I think when you do read classics, there is a sense of general intellectual fortification as you broaden your own personal horizons. You don't get that from many other sources. Duke, keep your nose to the grindstone!Mutt Ploughmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07886850428991826645noreply@blogger.com